Posted May 9, 201213 yr http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5a6aiJltt5c/T6Ac_SvM7TI/AAAAAAAAAfE/Tr3VHESY3VA/s640/diiv.jpg 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 Taken from 'Oshin' - the debut record of DIIV, due for release in AUS/NZ on Friday June 22. DIIV is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece. 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. 'How Long Have You Known?': 'Doused': Super, super good. Edited May 9, 201213 yr by يعقوب
May 9, 201213 yr Mmf, a quite good version of Best Coast or Tennis! <3 edit: I've just realised they actually have a member of Beach Fossils! That would explain a lot. Edited May 9, 201213 yr by Harve
May 9, 201213 yr ooh this sounds interesting. I like the repetitive almost motorik rhythm of the two tracks. Sounds better than both Tennis and Best Coast (and also not really the best bands to compare this with.)
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