The band plays the Ogden Theatre on Sunday, Jun 16.
, the NYC indie rocker’s fourth studio album released in May, is held together by an inconspicuous central narrative that pushes it under that category, admits lead vocalist and guitarist Zachary Cole Smith., but the band’s decision to take on the downfalls of living in a capitalistic hellscape gives the record a more philosophical concept than those fictional rock operas.
Sharing weighty topics isn’t necessarily new for the band, as Smith’s past struggle with drug addiction are well-documented on records“It just trickled it’s way in,” Newman adds. “It wasn’t like one day we decided to make it political. Thematically, it really started to emerge on its own because that was on our minds anyways.”
“I think that maybe comes from this being an outward-looking album, but still very personal sounding,” Caulfield adds. “It’s like our voice or the world through our eyes, because of that it feels very intimate, regardless of whether or not it’s looking outward or inward.”, formed DIIV as a solo project in 2011. But the group naturally began to shift into a more democratic outfit.
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