Following the success of recent singles
"Sometime", "Doused" , and "How Long Have You Known?"
(All three earned Best New Track from Pitchfork) you may be asking
yourself, what kind of drugs do I need to take to make music that good? Is it
really that magical ratio of one part THC and two parts MDMA? Well, the music
video for "How Long Have You Known?" intricately details the making
of that special drug. Just don't try this at home kiddos. Watch the Cole play
mad scientist in YouTube spotlight video for "How Long Have You
Known?" here.
Recently inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint,
DIIV created instant vibrations in the blog-world with their impressionistic
debut "Sometime"; finding it's way onto the esteemed pages of
Pitchfork and Altered Zones a mere matter of weeks after the group's formation.
Enlisting the aid of NYC indie-scene-luminary, Devin Ruben
Perez, former Smith Westerns drummer Colby Hewitt, and Mr. Smith's childhood
friend Andrew Bailey, DIIV craft a sound that is at once familial and
frost-bitten. Indebted to classic kraut, dreamy Creation-records psychedelia,
and the primitive-crunch of late-80's Seattle, the band walk a divisive yet
perfectly fused patch of classic-underground influence.
One part THC and two parts MDMA; the first offering from
DIIV chemically fuses the reminiscent with the half-remembered building a
musical world out of old-air and new breeze. These are songs that remind us of
love in all it's earthly perfections and perversions.
A lot of DIIV's magnetism was birthed in the process Mr.
Smith went through to discover these initial compositions. After returning from
a US tour with Beach Fossils, Cole made a bold creative choice, settling into
the window-facing corner of a painter's studio in Bushwick, sans running water,
holing up to craft his music.
In this AC-less wooden room, throughout the thick of the
summer, Cole surrounded himself with cassettes and LP's, the likes of Lucinda
Williams, Arthur Russell, Faust, Nirvana, and Jandek; writings of N. Scott
Momaday, James Welsh, Hart Crane, Marianne Moore, and James Baldwin; and dreams
of aliens, affection, spirits, and the distant natural world (as he imagined it
from his window facing the Morgan L train).
The resulting music is as cavernous as it is enveloping,
asking you to get lost in it's tangles in an era that demands your attention be
focused into 140 characters.
Since that fateful summer, the band have waged a full
throttle attack on the nation's venues, where the mellow, sometimes melancholic
vibes of those early transmissions morph into a manic, crashing thing,
providing an apt preview of DIIV's debut LP Oshin due on
Captured Tracks on June 26th.
DIIV has also just announced new tour dates including NXNE
and their record release show in Brooklyn. A rotating cast of characters
including Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Killer Mike, Frankie Rose, Spectrals,
Grimes, and Wild Nothing are accompanying DIIV on various tour dates. Check out
all the stops below and make sure to get off the couch when they come through
your town!
Watch - "How Long Have You
Known?":
DIIV
Oshin
(Captured Tracks)
June 26, 2012
01 (Druun)
02 Past Lives
03 Human
04 Air Conditioning
05 How Long Have You Known?
06 Wait
07 Earthboy
08 (Druun pt. ii)
09 Follow
10 Sometime
11 Oshin (Subsume)
12 Doused
13 Home
Tour Dates
5/01/12 @ Magic Stick - Detroit, MI *
5/02/12 @ The Shop Under Parts and Labor - Toronto,
ON *
5/03/12 @ Valentine's - Albany, NY *
5/05/12 @ Mercury Lounge - New York, NY * !
05/24/12 @ Brooklyn Bowl - Brooklyn, NY %
05/25/12 @ FUEL @ Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH
06/09/12 @ Rock and Roll Hotel - Washington, DC #
06/11/12 @ Johnny Brendas - Philadelphia, PA #
06/12/12 @ TT The Bears - Cambridge, MA #
06/13/12 @ Il Motore - Montreal, QC #
06/15/12 @ Lee's Palace (NXNE) - Toronto, ON
6/23/12 @ Glasslands - Brooklyn, NY (Record release show! Buy tickets here)
8/09/12 @ RiverRocks at Pier 84 - New York, NY ^
# = w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra
% = w/ Killer Mike, High Highs
* = w/ Frankie Rose
! = w/ Spectrals
^ = w/ Grimes, Wild Nothing
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