DIIV announce EU / UK tour dates to take place in 2024
DIIV
ANNOUNCE EU / UK TOUR DATES TO TAKE PLACE IN WINTER 2024
TO SUPPORT FONTAINES D.C. AT ALEXANDRA PALACE, LONDON
NEW ALBUM FROG IN BOILING WATER OUT NOW VIA FANTASY
Following the release of their critically acclaimed new album Frog In Boiling Water, DIIV return today with details of a new run of EU / UK tour dates to take place in winter 2024.
Frog In Boiling Water arrived last week to wide acclaim for its atmospheric and emotionally resonant soundscapes. Critics have praised the album's introspective lyrics and complex production, with DIY describing the album as "truly special." Elsewhere, Stereogum made the album their Album Of The Week calling the band "a modern standard bearer to a younger generation", whereas CLASH say the album is "as gorgeous a record as you’ll hear this year".
Hear / share recent singes:
"Brown Paper Bag" | "Soul-net" | "Everyone Out"
"Frog In Boiling Water" | "Raining On Your Pillow"
The band showcased their new material for the first time in the UK earlier this year playing across the country including a sold out date at Kentish Town Forum in London. The new tour will follow an extensive run of dates in the US across June / July / August, and will take place around their shows with Fontaines D.C. at Alexandra Place, London in November.
Full dates are below and tickets are on sale now HERE.
Tour Dates:
06/06/24 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst (US)
07/06/24 - San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom (US)
08/06/24 - Roseville, CA - Goldfield Trading Post (US)
10/06/24 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre (US)
12/06/24 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall (US)
13/06/24 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Hall (US)
14/06/24 - Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall (US)
16/06/24 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre (US)
18/06/24 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater (US)
19/06/24 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall (US)
20/06/24 - San Antonio, TX - Aztec Theater (US)
21/06/24 - Austin, TX - Emo's (US)
23/06/24 - El Paso, TX - The Lowbrow Palace (US)
24/06/24 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater (US)
25/06/24 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren (US)
27/06/24 - San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park (US)
29/06/24 - Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre (US)
15/07/24 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer (US)
16/07/24 - Washington, DC - Howard Theatre (US)
17/07/24 - Richmond, VA - The National (US)
19/07/24 - Charleston, SC - The Music Farm (US)
20/07/24 - Orlando, FL - House of Blues (US)
21/07/24 - Miami, FL - The Ground (US)
23/07/24 - Tampa, FL - The Orpheum (US)
25/07/24 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre (US)
27/07/24 - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall Ballroom (US)
28/07/24 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue (US)
30/07/24 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall (US)
31/07/24 - Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre (US)
02/08/24 - Toronto, ON - The Concert Hall (CA)
04/08/24 - Montreal, QC - Osheaga Music and Arts Festival (CA)
05/08/24 - Boston, MA - Royale (US)
07/08/24 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount (US)
16/11/24 : Slaktkyrkan – Stockholm (S)
17/11/24 : Vega – Copenhagen (DK)
18/11/24 : Astra – Berlin (D)
19/11/24 : Freiheitshalle – Munich (D)
20/11/24 : Circolo Magnolia – Milan (I)
22/11/24 : Alexandra Palace – London (UK) + Fontaines D.C.
23/11/24 : Alexandra Palace – London (UK) + Fontaines D.C.
25/11/24 : Sala But – Madrid (ES)
26/11/24 : Sala Apollo – Barcelona (ES)
27/11/24 : Le Rocher de Palmer – Bordeaux (F)
28/11/24 : Bataclan – Paris (F)
29/11/24 : TPT 30 years @ Vooruit Concertzaal – Gent (B)
30/11/24 : OM – Liège (B)
02/12/24 : Chalk – Brighton (UK)
05/12/24 : SWX – Bristol (UK)
06/12/24 : XOYO (2P) - Birmingham (UK)
07/12/24 : Tapyard Studios – Newcastle (UK)
08/12/24 : QMU (2P) - Glasgow (UK)
09/12/24 : The Ritz – Manchester (UK)
10/12/24 : Engine Rooms - Southampton (UK)
12/12/24 : Antipode – Rennes (F)
13/12/24 : Kulturfabrik – Esch (L)
14/12/24 : Kantine – Köln (D)
15/12/24 : TPT 30 years @ Paradiso – Amsterdam (NL)
Frog In Boiling Water, produced by Chris Coady, was a four-year process that nearly broke the band before the album was completed. With an aim to push their sound, make a record that challenged them, and treat the band as a democracy for the first time, DIIV began an ambitious journey, both individually and collectively. This journey left their relationships with one another fraying, with the many complex dynamics of family, friendship and finances entangled, coupled with suspicions, resentments, bruised egos and anxious questions. They ultimately found their way through, and the result is 10 songs that mine a new lyrical and musical depth, those two halves mirroring one another inside a reflective and immersive whole. It is a mesmeric testament to enduring, to envisioning anything else on the other side while you remain here, in the slowly heating water of right now.
Frog in Boiling Water, both the title and the themes of the record, reference “The Boiling Frog” in Daniel Quinn’s The Story of B. The band explains, “If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. 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. That’s the boiling water and we are the frogs. 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.”
