Late last month, DIIV announced their new album ZIRP!, which was produced by A.G. Cook. The follow-up to 2024’s Frog in Boiling Water is out October 30 via Fantasy Recordings. Today, they’ve formally detailed the new record and shared the lead single ‘The Fountain’. Check it out below.
“It was in the spirit of destroying & rebuilding their demos, Screamadelica-style, into a finished product, but that hybrid, half-remix approach felt completely wrong to me,” Cook said in a press release. “I became a bit obsessed with their live sound, and insisted on recording live drums before most of the songs were even finished. We spent a lot of time recording intricate guitar parts with specific guitar pedals, and as little time as possible doing anything on a computer, at least by my standards. After a few rounds of that, ZIRP! emerged as a concept, and a sort of utopian, dystopian mantra. For me it became a vehicle to push the band into new territory.”
Revisit our inspirations interview with DIIV.
ZIRP! Cover Artwork:
ZIRP! Tracklist:
1. The Fountain
2. Kid
3. When The Glow Came For Us
4. Dare Me
5. The Crash
6. Trillions
7. Us Against You
8. Evangelizer
9. Underground
10. My Star
11. Idiot In The Sky
