DIIV Share New Song 'Everyone Out'

DIIV Share New Song 'Everyone Out'

Frog in boiling water Out May 24 via Fantasy

March 26, 2024

By Mark Redfern

Photo: Louie Kovatch

DIIV release new album, Frog in boiling water, out May 24 via Fantasy. Now they've shared the album's third single, “Everyone Out.” Listen below and the band's upcoming tour dates follow.

The band collectively had this to say about the track in a press release:[‘Everyone Out’] uses a softer and more textured sonic palette: acoustic instruments, layered tape loops and synthesizers. The song is emotional and intimate and could be interpreted as either hopeful or cynical. It may or may not be a character study focused on a quick transition from youthful naivety to bitter disillusionment. This loss of hope can manifest itself in the desire to abandon society altogether or hasten its collapse. Or maybe both, or neither.”

Also below is the video for another one Frog in boiling water track, “Soul Net.” The band first shared audio of the song last October exclusively via a weird website of the same name, but more recently shared a video of the song on YouTube.

Previously, the band shared the album's lead single, “Brown Paper Bag,” which was #1 on our song of the week list. They then shared a video for 'Brown Paper Bag' in which the band put on a fake performance Saturday night live. The video also features Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit. They also announced some new tour dates.

DIIV are Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman and Zachary Cole Smith. Frog in boiling water is its sequel Fraud, released in 2019 via Captured Tracks. It's been five years since that album, and DIIV spent four of them making the new record, a process that according to a press release nearly broke the band as they tried to advance their sound. This is also the first album where the band functioned as a republic. “This journey has left their relationships unraveling, with the many complex dynamics of family, friendship and finances entangled, along with suspicions, grudges, bruised egos and troubling questions,” said the press release announcing the album.

The album title was inspired by Daniel Quinn's 1996 philosophical novel The story of B. The band collectively explained more about the title in the previous press release: “If you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will naturally frantically try to climb out. But if you put it gently in a pot of lukewarm water and turn down the heat, the frog will sink into a calm weariness, just like one of us in a warm bath, and soon, with a smile on his face, he will allow himself to boil without interruption to death.

“We understand the metaphor to be a metaphor for a slow, sick and overwhelmingly banal collapse of society under end-stage capitalism, the brutal realities we may have come to accept as normal. This is the boiling water and we are the frogs. The album is more or less a collection of snapshots from various angles of our contemporary situation, which we believe highlight what this collapse looks like and, more specifically, feels like.'

Read our 2016 interview with DIIV.

DIIV tour Dates:

6/6 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
6/7 – San Francisco, CA- Regency Ballroom
6/8 – Roseville, CA – Goldfield Trading Post
6/10 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
6/12 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
6/13 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall
6/14 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
6/16 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
6/18 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
6/19 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
6/20 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
6/21 – Austin, TX – Emo's
6/23 – El Paso, TX – The Lowbrow Palace
6/24 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theatre
6/25 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
6/27 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park
6/29 – Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theatre
7/15 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
7/16 – Washington, DC – Howard Theatre
7/17 – Richmond, VA – The National
7/19 – Charleston, SC – The Music Farm
7/20 – Orlando, FL – House of Blues
7/21 – Miami, FL – The Ground
7/23 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
7/25 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre
7/27 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
7/28 – Minneapolis, MN – First Ave
7/30 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
7/31 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
8/2 – Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall
8/4 – Montreal, QC – Osheaga Music and Arts festival
8/5 – Boston, MA – Royal
8/7 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount

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