Brooklyn janglers DIIV have their album Is the Is Are coming out on February 5 through Captured Tracks, and having already shared a couple of new tunes, they've now shared another one.
This one is called "Mire (Grant's Song)." While most of DIIV's material features dreamy, chiming tones, this one is a little more ominous, with a five-and-a-half-minute sprawl that's filled with squalling distortion. It's rather low on hooks, favouring a hypnotic surge over structured pop.
Frontman Zachary Cole Smith wrote the following statement about the song on Tumblr:
this is a song which i feel like should help put a lot of what we take from the album and put online before its release in context. it's so easy to put 'pop single' out there, because that's I guess what people want to hear? and this isn't really a 'single' or anything like that, but i really feel like this song will help make the album make more sense, partially bc it makes more plain the darkness and heaviness that defines a bulk of the album, whether its musical, lyrical, or in some less tangible way relating to events or moments in my life around the album's genesis. because i guess it kind of hurts me to read over and over reviews of our songs where everything is called 'reverby, beachy, summery, happy, etc', where the listener/reviewer can barely listen past our specific sonic palette and hear the actual SONG that is making use of that palette… in short, i feel like this song represents a really important aspect of this album, and to only represent the 'pop single' side of it wouldn't be fair to the album itself.
Hear it below.
This one is called "Mire (Grant's Song)." While most of DIIV's material features dreamy, chiming tones, this one is a little more ominous, with a five-and-a-half-minute sprawl that's filled with squalling distortion. It's rather low on hooks, favouring a hypnotic surge over structured pop.
Frontman Zachary Cole Smith wrote the following statement about the song on Tumblr:
this is a song which i feel like should help put a lot of what we take from the album and put online before its release in context. it's so easy to put 'pop single' out there, because that's I guess what people want to hear? and this isn't really a 'single' or anything like that, but i really feel like this song will help make the album make more sense, partially bc it makes more plain the darkness and heaviness that defines a bulk of the album, whether its musical, lyrical, or in some less tangible way relating to events or moments in my life around the album's genesis. because i guess it kind of hurts me to read over and over reviews of our songs where everything is called 'reverby, beachy, summery, happy, etc', where the listener/reviewer can barely listen past our specific sonic palette and hear the actual SONG that is making use of that palette… in short, i feel like this song represents a really important aspect of this album, and to only represent the 'pop single' side of it wouldn't be fair to the album itself.
Hear it below.
