Fantasy Vinyl & CDs

Review: DIIV is an indie band from Brooklyn who first started recording in 2010 together. The band is a mix of post rock, lo-li, Indie with some shoegaze elements. The band has garnered some strong success for an indie band with their last album reaching the Billboard top 200 album list. Frog In Boiling Water is their fourth album and reminds many of 90s UK bands like My Bloody Valentine and Ride. Their first single 'Brown Paper Bag' was released on the same day the new album was announced just a few months ago. The lead single has all the marks for a classic shoegaze sound that should bode well for the band with their growing following of fans. This version is released on lime green vinyl

Review: There's a lot to read into DIIV's fourth studio album. Arriving in May 2024, it comes after a particularly controversial and turbulent decade for the New York space-y-art-y-indie rockers. Turning the clock back 11 years, lead singer Zachary Cole Smith's arrest for heroin possession preceded his first trip to rehab, and racist comments made on 4chan by former bassist Devin Ruben Perez. By 2016, the group were essentially done. Between the and now they managed to reunite, via another spell in rehab and some internet resentments beginning to bubble over. 2019's Deceiver proved that you don't necessary need to trust one another to put out a great album, and now Frog... reiterates that point. Soaring like Mogwai but with more catch, here DIIV seem to be looking outwards to more expansive skies and themes than they have in the past, lyrically dealing with external contributing factors to the internal chaos of addition and mental health.