Photo by Shervin Lainez

In retrospect, DIIV have been one of the seminal bands over the last decade to lay the groundwork for not only what we now know as a rekindled interest in the shoegaze arts, but an elegy for a post-millennial generation. We’re seeing that influence everywhere around us in the ebbs and flows of indie rock’s new class, and you’ll even see it right in front of you if you catch the band on their summer tour, as they’re taking Philly sonic benders They Are Gutting A Body of Water, Boston’s Horse Jumper of Love, and Phoenix’s glixen out on the road with them. With the Brooklyn band’s formal return on “Brown Paper Bag”, the lead offering from their fourth studio effort, Frog In Boiling Water, Zachary Cole Smith and company refine on their own textures in a deflating dredge of static zone-outs fit for our imminent capitalism-fueled existential collapse. “So there I go / Torn, faded / A brown paper bag / Stuck on the ground / Down, wasted / Just a brown paper bag again.” Capturing a certain energy of slow dissolve in life through their patchwork of guitars is what they do best, and here, it’s inert at full screen scale.

Directed by: Parker Sprout

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DIIV’s Frog In Boiling Water will be released May 24th on Fantasy Records.