Way back in February, we warned that we’ll all be getting a whole lotta DIIV in 2024, and things have played out as expected. The Brooklyn band of Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman, and Zachary Cole Smith unveiled in May a solid fourth album called Frog in Boiling Water, and are now spending the summer on a 33-date North American tour that comes to Royale in Boston tonight (August 5), a day after hitting Montreal’s Osheaga Music and Arts Festival over the weekend.
A standout from the record remains grungy lead single “Brown Paper Bag,” for which DIIV crafted a music video that’s a spoof on Saturday Night Live, complete with intro by Fred Durst.
“The way we see it, it’s both a pop song and a sludgy song, a country song and a shoegaze song, a dreamy song and a decidedly ’90s ‘rock’ song,” the band writes on Insta. “While the rest of the record focuses on the larger external world, this one dwells on a specific internal experience of living in it: What does this world feel like sometimes? Ever feel like a brown paper bag?”
DIIV + HORSE JUMPER OF LOVE + BODY 2 :: Monday, August 5 at Royale, 279 Tremont St. in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., 18-plus, $35 :: Event info :: Advance tickets
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