In the latest Paste Digital Cover Story, DIIV talk about embracing the contradictions of parenthood, being a band nearly on the brink of fracture, and making their most “DIIV-sounding” record yet, 'Frog in Boiling Water.'
In our latest Digital Cover Story, the New York four-piece talk about embracing the contradictions of parenthood, being a band nearly on the brink of fracture, conspiracy theory websites, working with Chris Coady, and making their most “DIIV-sounding” record yet,’s music had become a “soundtrack to personal resurrection under the heavy weight of metallic catharsis.” Vocalist Zachary Cole Smith calls that era of the band “the old world,” given its pre-COVID context.
DIIV weren’t separated for very long during COVID, quickly reconvened during quarantine and creating an isolated “pod” together—where they were able to be in a practice space and make music together while other bands went dormant like much of the country. “It felt like a contrast to the world slowing down,” Caulfield says. “It was a vibrant time for the band.
“I feel like every good album creates a universe for the listener to enter, and this being the first song—not just the first single, but the first glimpse into the world that we were going to create but hadn’t created yet and hadn’t fully thought out yet—it just made sense to borrow from the theme of the song itself, which is a really specific conspiracy theory that exists online and goes back to the ‘90s,” Bailey says.
DIIV, which began as Dive 13 years ago in Smith’s “bedroom with no internet and didn’t know it would ever leave,” have become a prevalent and beloved emblem of a shoegaze movement that came swirling back into view in 2013 after my bloody valentine dropped. Now, in 2024, as shoegaze and slowcore are having a moment with Zoomers, and bands like Duster , Blue Smiley and Deftones have all seen streaming spikes in the last year or two.
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