diiv

Their disturbingly-titled new album has found the Brooklynites burrowing under our skin again, after a little period where our love had dwindled.

Here’s a record that rewards close listening with an oneiric and labyrinthine world to repeatedly lose yourself in. Dark, dazzling, transportive grunge-tinged shoegaze. DIIV deep! There's been a shift in the DIIV camp over the last couple of records - where they once jangled with harmonies, they now plunder darker depths - but that's resulted in a much more personal album, one that whispers steely confessionals into our eager ears. The band’s fourth full-length LP is a collection of snapshots that explores the brutal realities of end-stage capitalism and overwhelming technological advance. Across 10 dark and dazzling tracks, DIIV documents the collapse from various angles with unusual sensitivity and depth of purpose while expanding their grand, hypnotic shoegaze, to create a transportive, sensual work of hope, beauty and renewal.