Photo by Shervin Lainez
DIIV have announced details of their fourth album, titled Frog in Boiling Water. The album, out on May 24, is produced by Chris Coady and features the lead single "Brown Paper Bag." Scroll down to listen to that now.
Frog In Boiling Water takes its title from “The Boiling Frog” in Daniel Quinn’s 1996 novel The Story of B. In a press statement, the band explains, “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.”
DIIV's last album, Deceiver, was came out in 2019. Last year the band released “Soul Net” exclusively via a Web 1.0-core site of the same name.
Frog In Boiling Water artwork and tracklist
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
