On March 9, 2015, DIIV began recording their second album, Is the Is Are, at Strange Weather Recording Studio in Brooklyn.ĭrummer Colby Hewitt left the band in spring 2015 due to his rumored drug addiction. As of July 2014, Smith had written over 150 new songs since the release of Oshin. While touring in support of Oshin, DIIV played several unreleased songs live, including "Dust", "Loose Ends", and "Under the Sun". Caulfield played keyboard and guitar for live shows until late 2017, when he replaced Devin Ruben Perez on bass guitar. In July 2013, multi-instrumentalist Colin Caulfield joined the band. On lists of the top 50 albums of 2012, Oshin was listed 22nd by Stereogum and 40th by Pitchfork. DIIV also supported the Canadian duo Japandroids on their East Coast US tour in November–December 2012. "He's a huge star in Mali, but he has this one record called Borey and it was huge for me and influenced the way I experimented with melody." ĭIIV supported English band The Vaccines on their UK tour during November 2012. "People didn’t seem to pick up on the influence of these Malian guitar players, especially Baba Salah whose record I got at the library," Smith said. The songs on Oshin were influenced by krautrock, C86 bands, Nirvana and world music. It was preceded by the single "Geist" in April 2012 and the music video for "How Long Have You Known" in May 2012. A name is nothing." ĭIIV's debut album, Oshin, was released on June 26, 2012. The band is the same, the music is the same, the future will always be the same. 'DIVE', the word, was an element of what inspired the project in its genesis, but we’ve outgrown the name and its associations. ![]() "We’ve not been contacted by Dirk Ivens or his lawyers," Smith said in a press release, "but the short of it is that I don’t really give a fuck what the band is called." He continued, "I originated this project in a bedroom with no internet and didn’t know if it would ever leave the bedroom. ![]() In May 2012, the band changed their name to DIIV, according to Smith, "out of respect for Dirk Ivens and the original Dive," a 1990s Belgian industrial group. Smith would eventually change the spelling of the band's name after learning of the early 1990s Belgian industrial act by that name.Ĭaptured Tracks signed the band and released two singles, "Sometime" and "Human", which were recorded solely by Smith and had acted as demos. Smith, who originally named the project "Dive" after the Nirvana song of the same name, Įxplained to Pitchfork that "everybody in the band is a water sign, that's kind of why the name Dive really spoke to us all." ![]() He enlisted childhood friend Andrew Bailey (like Smith, from Connecticut) on guitar, bassist Devin Ruben Perez (from New York City), and ex- Smith Westerns drummer Colby Hewitt (from California) as his live band. Smith performing with DIIV in San Francisco in 2013Īfter a few years playing guitar with the psych-rock band Soft Black and playing drums for Beach Fossils, Zachary Cole Smith formed DIIV in 2011 as a forum for his own songs.
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