DIIV Detail New Album Is the Is Are

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Earlier this year, DIIV announced their sophomore album would be titled Is the Is Are. Months later, they’ve released the full details of the record, which will be released February 5, 2016 via Captured Tracks. Below, check out the full tracklist, which includes the previously released “Dopamine” and “Bent (Roi’s Song)” and features a collaboration with Sky Ferreira, as well as the album art.

Update (1:18 p.m.): Zachary Cole Smith has also shared a statement about the new album, along with the lyrics to “Bent (Roi’s Song)”. Find the statement below, and the lyrics here.

hi. so, first, i want to say… there are two songs on our new DIIV album, “is the is are” with a person’s name attached to them… which doesn’t rly mean there are two songs ABOUT these two people, as much as they may partially be, it just means that in my head, there’s something about that person that I just can’t disconnect from the song.  grant is one person. roi (pronounced row-EE) is the other. you likely don’t know them.  or maybe you do?  needless to say, i love them both with all my heart.  roi’s song, aka “bent”, used to make me feel sad, lonely, and terrified… but circumstances have changed, and now the song makes me smile… laugh even. the primary struggle of this song now exists (hopefully forever) in the past.  roi’s song isn’t really ABOUT roi, just as grant’s song isn’t about grant.  roi’s song is about a lot of people, including myself, and our struggles along the path to clarity, sanity, and sobriety. roi’s song is also the second public taste of our new album… dopamine was the first. dopamine was an extension/exploration of the sounds we explored on “Oshin”, reimagined. roi’s song extends the sounds further… it removes the vocal reverb that has graced all our previous output, it places lyrical content at the forefront, and it starts to hint at the more diverse sonic palette that defines “is the is are”… it is a diverse record, it is a happy record, a sad record, a happysad, sadhappy, mad, glad, quiet, mad, dark, glad, poppy, fast, slow, heavy, fast, peaceful, angry, chaotic, beautiful, lost/found, ugly, dry, wet, fuck, fast, dead, heartbroken, in love, loud, quiet, loud, loudquiet, quietloud, happy, mad, quiet, fuck, and loud record. please like it. please love it. do you love me? DIIV is the real me. fuck, xo cole

Read our Update interview with DIIV.

Is the Is Are:

Watch DIIV perform “Dust” at Captured Tracks’ 5th anniversary show:

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