DIIV announce experimental concert film and live album "Boiled Alive" + share "Reflected" video | Film out this Friday December 5th
This Friday, DIIV will release Boiled Alive, a live concert experience film, captured and recorded live across three shows at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles earlier this year. The film, directed by Jaxon Whittington, will premiere on December 5th at boiledalive.com. Ahead of its release, the band shared a live performance video of “Reflected” today.
WATCH / SHARE "REFLECTED" HERE
A companion Boiled Alive live album, produced by Chris Coady, will also be available this Friday. The live album consists of the entirety of the DIIV’s 2024 album, Frog In Boiling Water, with the addition of “Return Of Youth” as the album closer and interludes. The album will be released physically on CD and cassette.
“As a band we’ve always been at our best in a live concert environment, the band says. “We care as much about the quality of our shows as we do about our albums. Filming the Frog set felt like a way to make our live show more accessible to everyone and an opportunity to further build out the world of the album. We hope you enjoy what we made.” Director Jaxon Whittington adds “After one meeting at DIIV’s studio I felt extremely inspired by how they introduced this project to me and knew I would enjoy working with them. The band had already created such a beautiful and complex world surrounding the album which I found intriguing, making it easy to build upon. I don’t think this could have been made with any other group of people at any other time."
WATCH / SHARE THE BOILED ALIVE TRAILER HERE
Tour Dates:
Dec 12 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium *
Jan 17 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall (Tomorrow Never Knows)
* supporting A.G. Cook
PRAISE FOR FROG IN BOILING WATER:
“DIIV’s fourth full-length reanimates the genre”
-NME
“bona fide legends of 21st century shoegaze"
-So Young
"their best yet"
-Record Collector
"both thrilling and thoughtful" ★★★★½
-DIY
"as gorgeous a record as you’ll hear this year." ★★★★½
-CLASH
"Frog in Boiling Water is exquisite, challenging, and constantly evolving, a fitting description of the band behind it. It’s the soundtrack of our times" ★★★★½
-Far Out
"An ideal fusion of grit-in-the-gears grunge and spacey shoegaze! ★★★★
-Uncut
"Frog In Boiling Water is an exploration of persistence and resilience, marked by a meticulous fusion of breakbeats, haunting guitars and reflective lyrics." ★★★★
-NARC
“There are only great DIIV records, but I think this might be their best one…Every detail is so perfectly calibrated. You just feel that you are in the presence of a band that knows exactly what it’s set out to do…The resulting album is quite breathtaking”
-NPR Music
"The title track of the coming album by the Brooklyn band Diiv is a hazy, droney, baleful assessment of society’s prospects, envisioning only decay and collapse... Distorted, steady-strummed shoegaze guitars and a chord progression that stays unsettled sustain the desolate mood."
-The New York Times
"their most mature and best album, a sign that this is a band in it for the long haul, one that has already built a considerable artistic legacy but is disinclined to rest on its laurels"
-Stereogum (Album of the Week)
"brooding yet gorgeous shoegaze…a lush meditation on how to keep going as the world ends in slow motion"
-Vulture
"In the fashion of shoegaze’s more maximal strains, an undercarriage of funk and breakbeats helps transmute the angst of Zachary Cole Smith’s lullaby vocals into the ultimate catharsis."
-Pitchfork
“DIIV have merged their hazy, beautifully layered sonics with lyrics that are sharply political, taking on social and economic injustice, militarism, environmental destruction, complacency, and—at the root of it all—capitalism.”
-Esquire
“Their most meticulously crafted album to date”
-Northern Transmissions
"one of rock's most impressionistic acts"
-GRAMMY.com
"the most flat-out beautiful music of DIIV’s career."
-UPROXX
"the most tense, subtle, and cerebral music of their whole career."
-SPIN
"Frog in Boiling Water is their most cohesive work. It's a true slow burn of an album, capturing listeners by degrees and echoing the band's subtle yet dramatic growth since Oshin."
-Brooklyn Vegan
"they double down on their version of shoegaze and dream-pop—which has always had a bit more darkness in its veins than that of their contemporaries."
-Paste
“DIIV have always plucked beauty out from the pits of hell… Frog In Boiling Water suggests they’re up to the task”
-The FADER
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