DIIV | Photo credit: Louie Kovatch
‘Dare Me’
Listen: https://ffm.to/diiv-zirp
Watch: https://youtu.be/fyWb2Phz35w
ZIRP!
Pre-order / Save: https://ffm.to/diiv-zirp
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What the press is saying about DIIV and ZIRP! so far:
“Cook renders DIIV's shoegaze textures as if in arcade mode: portentous riffs wriggle like pop-punk earworms; feedback harbours micro melodies like radio jingles.” The Guardian
“‘ZIRP!’ is ambitious, unflinching and, ultimately, optimistic.” NME
“a crystalline clarity to it that defies genre conventions” Stereogum Album of the Week
“much more than just another DIIV album.” Uncut
“an album that pairs the most immediate melodies of the quartet’s career with searing social commentary, before filtering the whole lot through the pin-sharp abrasion of A. G. Cook’s production." CRACK
“balances DIIV’s familiar haze with an anthemic immediacy” SPIN
“DIIV is pioneering ‘The New Alternative’ movement” FLAUNT
“the most mainstream-aligned, contemporary pop DIIV have ever sounded” Paste Magazine
“a stellar synthesis of Cook’s intricate, glossy architecture with DIIV’s dream-pop, where ones and zeroes meet organic tissue” The Line Of Best Fit
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Leading up to the release of their album ZIRP! this Friday, DIIV shares final album single ‘Dare Me,’ which premiered as BBC 1’s “Hottest Record” and arrives with a music video directed by Louie Kovatch where we see the band in their now signature business-wear in a vacant office space performing the track. ZIRP! includes the previously shared singles ‘Trillions,’ ‘Kid,’ and ‘The Fountain.’ DIIV recently sat with Paste Magazine to discuss ZIRP!, working with A. G. Cook, and more. Stereogum also hailed ZIRP! their “Album of the Week,” where they stated “ZIRP! really does feel like a quantum leap. It’s the most stylish, dynamic, endlessly replayable album of DIIV’s career, animated by emotional currents that feel destined to strike a nerve. Buy up as many shares in this band as you can.”
Additionally, DIIV announces their headline World Tour today. Across the 47-date run, DIIV will bring their energized live show to festivals in Australia and Japan, a full run across North American and across Europe and United Kingdom. Presales begin tomorrow and general on sale is this Friday, October 30th at 10am local. This November, DIIV will perform at Pitchfork Music Festival in both Paris and London along with Sonic City Festival in Beldian. They will also undertake a Q&A and signing with Ben Homewood at Rough Trade East on 8th November, and will play an intimate outstore show in Kingston's Circuit on 9th Nov. Full live dates below.
This is The New Alternative: a new genre for the 21st century. More specifically: a new genre for music’s optimised VC-funded super deluxe remixed AI-enhanced algorithmically perfected wild west 2020s, where a million streams is great, a billion even better, and a trillion well within reach. On their fifth album ZIRP!, DIIV emphatically and ecstatically embrace the underground pedigree and the pop instinct that have anchored the band like magnetic poles for the better part of their career—smashing them together in pursuit of a sound that pre-empts any notion that Zachary Cole Smith, Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield and Ben Newman have ever been playing between worlds. Put more simply, on ZIRP! DIIV answer the simple questions that so many bands can’t: What would it mean to grow up? And glow up, too?
For as long as they’ve been making music, DIIV have been victims of a world without the vocabulary to describe their willingness to braid the harshness of genres like shoegaze (on 2024’s Frog In Boiling Water) and grunge (2019’s Deceiver) with mellifluous and memorable pop melody. Over the years, the world has caught up with them, with artists like Slayyyter, Eartheater and Turnstile forcing old-guard gatekeepers to find new ways to describe this gleeful disregard for old-fashioned scene designations and genre tags. With ZIRP! – and their embrace of The New Alternative – DIIV lock in on a name for the universe they’ve been chasing for all these years, and a sound that represents the apotheosis of that universe.
Produced by British pop wizard A. G. Cook (Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX) – a chief architect of our current post-category future – ZIRP!, named for the zero interest rate policies that drew us into a world of failed startups and turned us all into atomised “users,” expands on the themes of Frog In Boiling Waterwith a newfound lightness. Here, Palantir, societal breakdown and streaming’s endless hamster wheel are all fodder for rich, sparkling pop songs: Album opener and lead single ‘The Fountain’ pairs the sprawl and squall of DIIV records past with a jolting rhythmic guitar section that has arena-filling potential. Throughout, the band is zeroing in on its punchiest, most memorable melodies to date, each new internal hook and tossed-off earworm indicative of a band more than ready to make good on its ability to play in the mainstream.
When DIIV initially approached Cook, the producer says, “it was in the spirit of destroying & rebuilding their demos, Screamadelica-style, into a finished product, but that hybrid, half-remix approach felt completely wrong to me.”Instead, he became a professor of DIIV studies, attending the band’s shows and forming a unified theory of where the band needed to go next. “I became a bit obsessed with their live sound, and insisted on recording live drums before most of the songs were even finished. We spent a lot of time recording intricate guitar parts with specific guitar pedals, and as little time as possible doing anything on a computer, at least by my standards,” he says. “After a few rounds of that, ZIRP! emerged as a concept, and a sort of utopian, dystopian mantra. For me it became a vehicle to push the band into new territory.”
Check out ‘Dare Me’ and pre-order / save ZIRP! above, see upcoming live dates and full album details below.
ZIRP!
DIIV
October 30th, 2026
1. The Fountain
2. Kid
3. When The Glow Came For Us
4. Dare Me
5. The Crash
6. Trillions
7. Us Against You
8. Evangelizer
9. Underground
10. My Star
11. Idiot In The Sky
Forthcoming live dates
11/2 - Paris, FR @ Pitchfork Music Festival
11/6 - Kortrijk, BE @ Sonic City Festival
11/7 - London, UK @ Pitchfork Music Festival
11/8 - London, UK @ Rough Trade East (No performance - Q&A + signing)
11/9 - Kingston, UK @ Circuit
2027 WORLD TOUR
AUS / ASIA
2/12 - Sydney, AU @ Laneway Festival
2/13 - Brisbane, AU @ Laneway Festival
2/19 - Melbourne, AU @ Laneway Festival
2/21 - Auckland, NZ @ Laneway Festival
2/24 - Tokyo, JP@ KANDA SQUARE HALL
2/25 - Tokyo, JP @ KANDA SQUARE HALL
NORTH AMERICA
4/7 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
4/8 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
4/9 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
4/12 - Detroit, MI @ El Club
4/13 - Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall
4/15 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
4/16 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
4/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
4/18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
4/20 - Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring
4/21 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
4/22 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
4/23 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
4/25 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (Downstairs)
4/26 - Dallas, TX @ AM/FM Backyard
4/27 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk
4/30 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
5/2 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
5/7 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
5/8 - Santa Barbara, CA @ SOhO Restaurant & Music Club
5/9 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre
5/10 - Sacramento, CA @ Harlow's
5/12 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
5/13 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
5/15 - Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club
5/16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
5/17 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
5/20 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
5/21 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory at North Park
EUROPE / UK
5/31 - Lille, FR @ L’Aéronef
6/1 - Paris, FR @ L'Olympia
6/2 - Rennes, FR @ Antipode
6/3 - Lyon, FR @ Transbordeur
6/3-6/5 - Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
6/13 - Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret
6/14 - Hamburg, DE @ Gruenspan
6/16 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
6/17 - Berlin, DE @ Huxleys Neue Welt
6/18 - Prague, CZ @ Roxy
6/19 - Vienna, AT @ Flex
6/20 - Munich, DE @ Nachtwerk
6/21 - Köln, DE @ Kantine
6/22 - Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik
6/24 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk
6/25 - Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
6/26 - Glasgow, UK @ QMU
6/27 - Dublin, IE @ Opium
6/29 - Bristol, UK @ The Prospect Building
6/30 - London, UK @ Troxy
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