DIIV’s new album, ZIRP!, bottles all the dread about societal collapse and blows it up to pop scale. With it comes “The New Alternative,” a term that attempts to describe the genre-breaking renaissance of the 2020s.
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Super fun as always to talk to Cole Smith of @DIIV about keeping a band vital for 15 years + embracing hooks and melody on new album ‘ZIRP!’ Also: his idea of “alternative” and how a family tragedy helped him learn to live in the moment. For @billboard
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.@DIIV's 'ZIRP!' is out today. Stream it and read why it's our Album Of The Week:
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The exact sort of pop-crossover gesture that DIIV have resisted across the last 15 years catches the shoegaze band at a point of sonic precipice
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After more than seven years away, I'm back at Pitchfork contributing again and happy to be doing so. For my return I wrote about DIIV's new album. Link in thread
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DIIV teams with producer A. G. Cook for their most pop-leaning record yet. Despite some welcome shifts in tone, the best moments sound like no one but DIIV
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DIIV are taking ZIRP! on a huge tour next year
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On album five ‘ZIRP!’, @diiv offer up an ambitious, unflinching look at where the ills of capitalism have taken us. Read the full NME review: nme.com/reviews/album/diiv-z…
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Diiv are bringing their new album around the globe next year
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I talked to Cole, Andrew, and Ben from @DIIV about corporate pop, what it’s like when your house burns down, and working with A.G. Cook on their new album
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.@DIIV take on American decline on the @agcook404-produced 'ZIRP!,' the most stylish, dynamic, endlessly replayable release of their career. It's our Album Of The Week.
Read our review and check out a comprehensive list of this week's new releases:
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I talked to DIIV about going corporate, rejecting shoegaze, "looking like shit," their new album 'ZIRP!', and a whole lot more.
Chasing Sundays interview: elienis.com/diiv-interview-z…
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DIIV release new power pop single "Trillions" theneedledrop.com/news/diiv-…
New song Trillions out now
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Check out @DIIV's ironically aspirational new mega-pop single "Trillions"
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“Kid,” the latest single from Diiv’s A. G. Cook-produced new album, comes with a video shot by a couple of kids pitchfork.com/story/diivs-ne…
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Check out @DIIV's very cool new A. G. Cook (@agcook404)-produced single "Kid"
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Diiv have shared more details about their A. G. Cook-produced album ZIRP! pitchfork.com/story/diiv-ann…

















