Today, DIIV shares the second offering from their new album ZIRP! due October 30th via Fantasy Recordings, with their new single “Kid.”
The single cracks open another side of what can be heard on ZIRP! and arrives with a music video directed by Jaxon Whittington and filmed by vocalist Zachary Cole Smith’s son Roy and his friend Julian.
On their fifth album ZIRP!, DIIV emphatically and ecstatically embrace the underground pedigree and the pop instinct that have anchored the band like magnetic poles for the better part of their career.
Produced by British pop wizard A. G. Cook (Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX) ZIRP!, named for the zero interest rate policies that drew us into a world of failed startups and turned us all into atomised “users,” expands on the themes of Frog In Boiling Water with a newfound lightness. Here, Palantir, societal breakdown and streaming’s endless hamster wheel are all fodder for rich, sparkling pop songs.
