The album is more or less a collection of snapshots from various angles of our modern condition which we think highlights what this collapse looks like and, more particularly, what it feels like.” That’s the boiling water and we are the frogs. “We understand the metaphor to be one about a slow, sick, and overwhelmingly banal collapse of society under end-stage capitalism, the brutal realities we’ve maybe come to accept as normal. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death. The band collectively explain more about the title in the press release: “If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. The album’s title was inpsired by Daniel Quinn’s 1996 philosophical novel The Story of B. “This journey left their relationships with one another fraying, with the many complex dynamics of family, friendship and finances entangled, coupled with suspicions, resentments, bruised egos and anxious questions,” states the press release. This is also the first album where the band acted as a democracy. It’s been five years since that album and DIIV spent four of those making the new record, a procees that a press release says almost broke the band as they strived to push their sound. Frog in Boiling Water is the follow-up to Deceiver, which came out in 2019 via Captured Tracks. Check out the album’s tracklist and cover artwork here.ĭIIV is Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman, and Zachary Cole Smith. “Brown Paper Bag” finds DIIV gloriously tumbling headfirst into choppy shoegaze currents and somehow staying afloat. This week, DIIV announced a new album, Frog in Boiling Water, and shared its first single, “Brown Paper Bag.” Frog in Boiling Water is due out May 24 via Fantasy. To help you sort through the multitude of fresh songs released in the last week, we have picked the 13 best the last week had to offer, followed by some honorable mentions. In the last week we reviewed some albums. In the past week or so we posted interviews with Slowdive, Eaves Wilder, Heather Woods Broderick, Birthmark, Slow Pulp, Spiritualized, Mutual Benefit, and others. We settled on a Top 13 this week, narrowed down from the 25 songs we seriously considered. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, and Scott Dransfield all helped me decide what should make the list. Even most of the honorable mentions are great this week and would’ve made the main list on other weeks. Vampire Weekend released two songs and they both made the list (and might’ve charted even higher if they had just put out one song and not split the vote). Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2024.
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