DIIV—Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman and Zachary Cole Smith—recently announced their fourth album, Frog in boiling waterwhich will be released on May 24th via Fantasy Records.
Today, the band announced a North American tour to promote the album. Pre-sales will begin tomorrow, February 27, at 10 a.m. locally, and the general sale will begin Friday at 10 a.m. locally. See a show near you below and get your tickets HERE.
Amid rumors of a televised performance at a famous live show, the band has revealed the never-before-seen performance of “Brown Paper Bag” with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst. Watch it now BELOW:
Tour dates
6/6 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
6/7 – San Francisco, CA – Regency Hall
6/8 – Roseville, CA – Goldfield Trading Post
6/10 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theater
6/12 – Portland, Oregon – Revolution Hall
6/13 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall
6/14 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
6/16 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theater
6/18 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
6/19 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
6/20 – San Antonio, TX – Teatro Azteca
6/21 – Austin, TX – Emo's
6/23 – El Paso, TX – The Lowbrow Palace
6/24 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
6/25 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
6/27 – San Diego, CA – North Park Observatory
6/29 – Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theater
7/15 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
7/16 – Washington, DC – Howard Theater
7/17 – Richmond, VA – El Nacional
7/19 – Charleston, SC – The Music Farm
7/20 – Orlando, FL – House of the Blues
7/21 – Miami, FL – The Terrain
7/23 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheus
7/25 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theater
7/27 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
7/28 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
7/30 – Chicago, Illinois – Thalia Hall
7/31 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theater
2/8 – Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall
4/8 – Montreal, QC – Osheaga Music and Arts Festival
8/5 – Boston, MA – Royale
8/7 – Brooklyn, New York – Brooklyn Paramount
Frog in boiling water, produced by Chris Coady, was a four-year process that nearly broke up the band before the album was completed. Aiming to push their sound, make a record that challenged them, and treat the band as a democracy for the first time, DIIV began an ambitious journey, both individually and collectively. This trip left their relationships with each other frayed, with many complex dynamics of family, friendship, and finances tangled, along with suspicions, resentments, bruised egos, and anxious questions. They finally found their way, and the result is ten songs that mine new lyrical and musical depth, those two halves reflecting each other within a reflective and immersive whole. It is a hypnotic testament to enduring, to imagining anything else on the other side while you remain here, in the slowly warming water of this moment.
Frog in boiling water, Both the title and the songs of the album refer to “The Boiling Frog” in The Story of B by Daniel Quinn. The band explains: “If you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, of course it will frantically try to get out. But if you gently place it in a pot of warm water and lower the heat, the frog will sink into a quiet stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and soon, with a smile on its face, it will allow itself to boil. until he dies without resisting.”
“We understand the metaphor to be about a slow, sickening, overwhelmingly banal collapse of society under late-stage capitalism, the brutal realities we have perhaps come to accept as normal. That's the boiling water and we are the frogs. The album is more or less a collection of snapshots from various angles of our modern condition that we believe highlights what this collapse looks like and, more particularly, feels like.”
List of songs from Frog in Boiling Water
1. In amber
2. Brown paper bag
3. Raining on your pillow
4. Frog in boiling water
5. Everyone out
6. Mirrored
7. Grim the drums
8. Little birds
9. Soul Network
10. Mudguards on the highway
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