DIIV are back with Frog in Boiling Water, the band’s fourth album and first in four years. They made it with producer Chris Coady, and it will be out May 24 via Fantasy.
“If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out,” the band say of the album’s title. “But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.”
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They continue: “We understand the metaphor to be one about a slow, sick, and overwhelmingly banal collapse of society under end-stage capitalism, the brutal realities we’ve maybe 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 which we think highlights what this collapse looks like and, more particularly, what it feels like.”
Frog in Boiling Water includes last year’s “Soul Net,” and the new single from the album is “Brown Paper Bag” hits that spot between ’90s shoegaze and heavy alt-rock, somewhere between My Bloody Valentine and Smashing Pumpkins. Watch the visualizer below.
DIIV Frog In Boiling Water tracklist
1. “In Amber”
2. “Brown Paper Bag”
3. “Raining On Your Pillow”
4. “Frog In Boiling Water”
5. “Everyone Out”
6. “Reflected”
7. “Somber the Drums”
8. “Little Birds”
9. “Soul-net”
10. “Fender on the Freeway”
