LISTEN: DIIV Takes the Murky Route on “Mire (Grant’s Song)”

The New York band’s second album is out in February.
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LISTEN: DIIV Takes the Murky Route on “Mire (Grant’s Song)”

The New York band’s second album is out in February.

Words: Christian Koons

photo by Sandy Kim

November 23, 2015

DIIV. Sandy Kim.

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DIIV has released another new track from their upcoming sophomore album Is the Is Are. “Mire (Grant’s Song)” is a darker, more challenging take on the group’s usual brand of gauzy guitar-driven dream pop, with sputtering free jazz drums in the second verse and a watery Nirvana-flavored outro. Not sure who Grant is, but he sounds like a more brooding individual than Roi.

Is the Is Are is out February 5 on Captured Tracks.

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