Frog In Boiling Water

by DIIV

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1.	In Amber 04:08	info	buy track
2.	Brown Paper Bag 04:25	info	buy track
3.	Raining On Your Pillow 03:53	info	buy track
4.	Frog In Boiling Water 03:57	info	buy track
5.	Everyone Out 04:52	info	buy track
6.	Reflected 03:36	info	buy track
7.	Somber The Drums 03:58	info	buy track
8.	Little Birds 04:21	info	buy track
9.	Soul-net 04:24	info	buy track
10.	Fender On The Freeway 05:34	info	buy track

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Frog In Boiling Water, produced by Chris Coady, was a four-year process that nearly broke the band before the album was completed. With an aim to push their sound, make a record that challenged them, and treat the band as a democracy for the first time, DIIV began an ambitious journey, both individually and collectively. This journey left their relationships with one another fraying, with the many complex dynamics of family, friendship and finances entangled, coupled with suspicions, resentments, bruised egos and anxious questions. They ultimately found their way through, and the result is 10 songs that mine a new lyrical and musical depth, those two halves mirroring one another inside a reflective and immersive whole. It is a mesmeric testament to enduring, to envisioning anything else on the other side while you remain here, in the slowly heating water of right now.

Frog in Boiling Water, both the title and the themes of the record, reference “The Boiling Frog” in Daniel Quinn’s The Story of B. The band explains, “If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.”

“We understand the metaphor to be one about a slow, sick, and overwhelmingly banal collapse of society under end-stage capitalism, the brutal realities we’ve maybe come to accept as normal. That’s the boiling water and we are the frogs. The album is more or less a collection of snapshots from various angles of our modern condition which we think highlights what this collapse looks like and, more particularly, what it feels like.”

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DIIV Brooklyn, New York

DIIV—Zachary Cole Smith [lead vocals, guitar], Andrew Bailey [guitar], Colin Caulfield [vocals, bass], and Ben Newman [drums]—craft the soundtrack to personal resurrection under the heavy weight of metallic catharsis upheld by robust guitars and vocal tension that almost snaps, but never quite… ... more

shows

Nov 18

ASTRA Kulturhaus

Berlin, Germany
Nov 19

Technikum (im Werksviertel Mitte)

Munich, Germany
Nov 20

Circolo Magnolia (Estivo)

Segrate, Italy
Nov 22

Alexandra Palace

London, UK
Nov 23

Alexandra Palace

London, UK
Nov 25

Ochoymedio (Antigua Sala But)

Madrid, Spain
Nov 26

Sala Apolo

Barcelona, Spain
Nov 27

Dynamo Saal

Zürich, Switzerland
Nov 28

Le Bataclan

Paris, France
Dec 2

Chalk

Brighton, UK
Dec 3

Garage

London, UK
Dec 5

SWX

Bristol, UK
Dec 6

XOYO Birmingham

Birmingham, UK
Dec 7

SWG3

Glasgow, UK
Dec 8

Newcastle University Student Union

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Dec 9

O2 Ritz Manchester

Manchester, UK
Dec 10

EngineRooms

Southampton, UK
Dec 12

Antipode

Rennes, France
Dec 13

Kulturfabrik

Esch Sur Alzette, Luxembourg
Dec 14

Die Kantine

Cologne, Germany
Dec 15

Paradiso Grote Zaal

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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