Frog In Boiling Water arrives in May.
DIIV have announced the release of a new album.
Frog In Boiling Water is set for arrival through Concord and Fantasy Records in May, marking the beloved American indie rock outfit’s fourth studio album in succession of 2019’s critically acclaimed Deceiver. Led by newly premiered single ‘Brown Paper Bag’, the forthcoming album was recorded by prolific American producer-engineer Chris Coady, whose prior credits include albums from Beach House, Grizzly Bear, TV On The Radio and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Of the album’s title – which is said to be named in reference to Daniel Quinn’s 1996 novel The Story of B – the band state
“If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. 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.”
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. That’s the boiling water and we are the frogs. 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.”
Hear lead single ‘Brown Paper Bag’ and view the track list for Frog In Boiling Water below.
Frog In Boiling Water
1 ‘In Amber’
2 ‘Brown Paper Bag’
3 ‘Raining On Your Pillow’
4 ‘Frog In Boiling Water’
5 ‘Everyone Out’
6 ‘Reflected’
7 ‘Somber The Drums’
8 ‘Little Birds’
9 ‘Soul-net’
10 ‘Fender On The Freeway’
Frog In Boiling Water releases on May 24th via Concord and Fantasy Records. Pre-order the album on vinyl here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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