After teasing an obvious (and unlikely) look on an episode of Saturday Evening Dwell hosted by none aside from Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, DIIV have paid off the joke with the video for his or her new tune “Brown Paper Bag” and introduced a tour in help of their upcoming album, Frog in Boiling Water.
Final week, the New York rock group shared a short clip filmed on what appeared quite a bit just like the famed SNL stage set, which even features a winking nod to the present’s horn-heavy theme tune. Durst then offers a nonsensical introduction: “Inter-dimensional or not? I don’t know. I’m the god-dang cosmic thunder lord and I’m right here to current you the very best present you’ve ever seen, and these guys are bad-ass.”
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Durst reappears within the “Brown Paper Bag” video to welcome DIIV again to the SNL-ish set for a efficiency of the tune, a sludgy slice of shoegaze with shades of My Bloody Valentine and Smashing Pumpkins. It’s adopted by one other faux advert for Soul-net, a company behemoth providing “transformative options for private and societal points.”
Though neither DIIV nor Durst have commented instantly on the collaboration, the capitalist-skewering components of those movies align with the themes of Frog in Boiling Water, which shall be launched Could 24 on new label Fantasy Information.
“In case you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it can in fact frantically attempt to clamber out. However when you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and switch the warmth on low, the frog will sink right into a tranquil stupor, precisely like considered one of us in a scorching bathtub, and earlier than lengthy, with a smile on its face, it can unresistingly permit itself to be boiled to demise,” the band say. “We perceive the metaphor to be one a few sluggish, sick and overwhelmingly banal collapse of society beneath end-stage capitalism — the brutal realities we’ve perhaps come to just accept as regular. That’s the boiling water and we’re the frogs. The album is kind of a set of snapshots from numerous angles of our fashionable situation which we expect highlights what this collapse seems to be like and, extra significantly, what it seems like.”
DIIV will return to the street starting June 6 in Santa Cruz, Ca., and have dates on the books by an Aug. 7 hometown present on the soon-to-open Paramount in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Listed here are DIIV’s tour dates:
6/6 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
6/7 – San Francisco, CA- Regency Ballroom
6/8 – Roseville, CA – Goldfield Buying and selling Publish
6/10 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
6/12 – Portland, OR – Revolution Corridor
6/13 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Corridor
6/14 – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT – Metro Music Corridor
6/16 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
6/18 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
6/19 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Corridor
6/20 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
6/21 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
6/23 – El Paso, TX – The Lowbrow Palace
6/24 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
6/25 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
6/27 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park
6/29 – Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theatre
7/15 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Switch
7/16 – Washington, DC – Howard Theatre
7/17 – Richmond, VA – The Nationwide
7/19 – Charleston, SC – The Music Farm
7/20 – Orlando, FL – Home of Blues
7/21 – Miami, FL – The Floor
7/23 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
7/25 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre
7/27 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Corridor Ballroom
7/28 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
7/30 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Corridor
7/31 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
8/2 – Toronto, ON – The Live performance Corridor
8/4 – Montreal, QC – Osheaga Music and Arts Competition
8/5 – Boston, MA – Royale
8/7 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
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