DIIV have launched a brand new stay album that includes tracks the band carried out at an unplugged acoustic present greater than half a decade in the past.
The album, recorded throughout a gig at Brooklyn’s Murmrr Theatre in August of 2017, options new preparations of songs from the band’s first two albums – 2012’s ‘Oshin’ and 2016’s ‘Is The Is Are’. Also featured are covers of My Bloody Valentine‘s ‘When You Sleep’ and ‘Hollow’ by Alex G.
“In August 2017 I was 5 months sober and DIIV hadn’t played a show in almost a year,” bandleader Cole Smith defined in a press release. “Our pal Ric helped us arrange an intimate acoustic present in a theater in our hometown of Brooklyn. We adorned the stage with stuff from our homes and performed our house movies on a TV.
“We invited our friends and family and played some songs from our first two albums and some other artists’ songs that felt important to us as a band. It felt like some kind of reset. We recorded the show and forgot about it for a bunch of years. We recently found the recordings and thought people might want to hear them.”
Watch DIIV carry out ‘Dopamine’ stay on the Murmrr Theatre – and hearken to the album – under:
DIIV’s final studio album, ‘Deceiver’, arrived in 2019 after being previewed with singles ‘Skin Game’, ‘Taker’ and ‘Blankenship’.
“It’s tempting to say that ‘Deceiver’ truly excels at its heaviest, given that these moments… are the record’s most memorable. But it’s actually the more fragile moments on ‘Deceiver’ that ultimately prove to be the most emotionally resonant,” NME stated in a four-star evaluate. “This is an album about rebuilding and, finally, facing yourself.”