DIIV have announced a new album, Frog in Boiling Water, due out May 24th via Fantasy Records. Today, the band has shared the project’s lead single, “Brown Paper Bag.”
Frog in Boiling Water arrives as the band’s third album and follows their 2019 effort Deceiver. Boasting production from Chris Coady (Slowdive, Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), the album takes its name from Daniel Quinn’s The Story of B and fittingly explores themes of gradual collapse, according to the press release.
“If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out,” the band explained. “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,” they continued. “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.”
“Brown Paper Bag,” the album’s first single, previews the gloomy perspective of the album. Taking queues from dream pop and post-rock, the track sets up an ominous atmosphere as the lyrics present a dejected, beaten-down narrator.
Listen to the new song below. Additionally, pre-orders for Frog in Boiling Water are ongoing.
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Frog in Boiling Water Tracklist:
01. In Amber
02. Brown Paper Bag
03. Raining on Your Pillow
04. Frog in Boiling Water
05. Everyone Out
06. Reflected
07. Somber the Drums
08. Little Birds
09. Soul-net
10. Fender on the Freeway