DIIV
Is The Is Are 2LP vinyl

Dreamy New Yorkers DIIV return with 17 track double LP 'Is The Is Are' on Captured Tracks.'Is the Is Are' is an album years and many personal struggles in the making for its architect, Zachary Cole Smith. Recorded and mixed in various locations in Brooklyn, the album showcases everything you know and love about DIIV and many things you did not, all with an added nuance and depth. It's a 17-song album statement intended to resonate with its audience in much the same way that 'Bad Moon Rising' or 'Tago Mago' has for Smith himself. An extension and deepening of the musical ideas first expressed on 2012's critically-lauded 'Oshin', 'Is The Is Are' yields a multiplicity of textures, lyrical themes and moods. It is a more diverse world than 'Oshin', with different parameters and ideals. Dark and honest to a fault, the new songs are dynamic, loud, quiet, sad; they are songs that hiss and snarl; songs that, as Smith wrote recently, represent "the real me." Smith's vocals, too, are much closer to the foreground, layered legibly on top of tidal waves of shimmering guitar and melodic bass weaving in and out, leaving a distinct and indelible imprint.

NEW / Released in 2016

Tracklist:

A1 Out Of Mind

A2 Under The Sun

A3 Bent (Roi's Song)

A4 Dopamine

B1 Blue Boredom (Sky's Song)

B2 Valentine

B3 Yr Not Far

B4 Take Your Time

C1 Is The Is Are

C2 Mire (Grant's Song)

C3 Incarnate Devil

C4 (Fuck)

C5 Healthy Moon

D1 Loose Ends

D2 (Napa)

D3 Dust

D4 Waste Of Breath