Live At The Murmrr Theatre includes the band’s renditions of songs by Alex G and My Bloody Valentine.
DIIV have released a new live album compiling songs performed during an unplugged acoustic concert that unfolded five years ago in the band’s hometown of Brooklyn, New York.
Live At The Murmrr Theatre features renditions of songs from the band’s first two albums Oshin and Is The Is Are, alongside covers of Alex G’s ‘Hollow’ and My Bloody Valentine’s ‘When You Sleep’.
Frontman Zachary Cole Smith shares,
“In August 2017 I was 5 months sober and DIIV hadn’t played a show in almost a year. Our friend Ric helped us set up an intimate acoustic show in a theater in our hometown of brooklyn. We decorated the stage with stuff from our houses and played our home videos on a tv. We invited our friends and family and played some songs from our first two albums and some other artists’ songs that felt important to us as a band. It felt like some kind of reset. We recorded the show and forgot about it for a bunch of years. We recently found the recordings and thought people might want to hear them. I think of it as a kind of official bootleg I guess. Our friend Jarvis mixed it and our friends Parker and Jim made the art. enjoy.”
DIIV released their latest album Deceiver to widespread praise in 2019.
Stream Live At The Murmrr Theatre below.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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