DIIV are currently on an extensive EU / UK headline tour and a multitude of festival dates for this summer, including End Of The Road, Paredes de Coura and more.
DIIV released their latest album Frog in Boiling Water last year on 24th May. Since then, its been a true whirlwind – the highs of releasing a critically-acclaimed album that was beloved by fans and touring to sold-out crowds worldwide, all to be met with the heartbreaking events of the wildfires in California earlier this year that resulted in Zachary Cole Smith losing his home.
As the band approached the one-year anniversary of their latest record, they shared their first new song since its release, with the highly emotional track ‘Return of Youth’.
Watch / share the video for ‘Return Of Youth’ here
The tour comes on the heels of a packed-out 25 date EU/UK tour at the tail end of last year, which also saw the band play two sold-out dates with Fontaines D.C. at London’s Alexandra Palace.
UK tickets are on sale here.
UK/Ireland Tour Dates:
30/8/2025 – End of the Road Festival (UK)
31/8/2025 – The Brudenell – Leeds (UK) with Pale Blue Eyes and Van Houten
1/9/2025 – Vicar Street/Button Factory – Dublin (IRE)
3/9/2025 – Outernet – London (UK)
What the critics say
“bona fide legends of 21st century shoegaze” -So Young
“their best yet” -Record Collector
“both thrilling and thoughtful” ★★★★½ -DIY
“as gorgeous a record as you’ll hear this year.” ★★★★½ -CLASH
“Frog in Boiling Water is exquisite, challenging, and constantly evolving, a fitting description of the band behind it. It’s the soundtrack of our times” ★★★★½ -Far Out
“An ideal fusion of grit-in-the-gears grunge and spacey shoegaze! ★★★★ -Uncut
“Frog In Boiling Water is an exploration of persistence and resilience, marked by a meticulous fusion of breakbeats, haunting guitars and reflective lyrics.” ★★★★ -NARC
“There are only great DIIV records, but I think this might be their best one…Every detail is so perfectly calibrated. You just feel that you are in the presence of a band that knows exactly what it’s set out to do…The resulting album is quite breathtaking” –NPR Music
“The title track of the coming album by the Brooklyn band Diiv is a hazy, droney, baleful assessment of society’s prospects, envisioning only decay and collapse… Distorted, steady-strummed shoegaze guitars and a chord progression that stays unsettled sustain the desolate mood.” -The New York Times
“their most mature and best album, a sign that this is a band in it for the long haul, one that has already built a considerable artistic legacy but is disinclined to rest on its laurels” –Stereogum (Album of the Week)
“brooding yet gorgeous shoegaze…a lush meditation on how to keep going as the world ends in slow motion” –Vulture
“In the fashion of shoegaze’s more maximal strains, an undercarriage of funk and breakbeats helps transmute the angst of Zachary Cole Smith’s lullaby vocals into the ultimate catharsis.” -Pitchfork
“DIIV have merged their hazy, beautifully layered sonics with lyrics that are sharply political, taking on social and economic injustice, militarism, environmental destruction, complacency, and—at the root of it all—capitalism.” -Esquire
“Their most meticulously crafted album to date” -Northern Transmissions
“one of rock’s most impressionistic acts” –GRAMMY.com
“the most flat-out beautiful music of DIIV’s career.” –UPROXX
“the most tense, subtle, and cerebral music of their whole career.” -SPIN
“Frog in Boiling Water is their most cohesive work. It’s a true slow burn of an album, capturing listeners by degrees and echoing the band’s subtle yet dramatic growth since Oshin.” –Brooklyn Vegan
“they double down on their version of shoegaze and dream-pop—which has always had a bit more darkness in its veins than that of their contemporaries.” –Paste
“DIIV have always plucked beauty out from the pits of hell… Frog In Boiling Water suggests they’re up to the task” -The FADER
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