- 2024-04-24
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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ DIIV Releases New Song “Frog In Boiling Water”
American rock band DIIV, consisting of Zachary Cole Smith (vocals/guitar), Andrew Bailey (guitar), Colin Caulfield (bass) and Ben Newman (drums), released a new song “Frog In Boiling Water” on April 23, 2024.
The song is the title track and the fourth single off of their upcoming fourth studio album “Frog In Boiling Water”, which is set to be released on May 24, 2024.
The track was written by Andrew Bailey, Benjamin D Newman, Colin Edward Caulfield, and Zachary Cole Smith. Produced by Chris Coady.
The band shared on social media, “The title track of DIIV’s new album Frog in Boiling Water is a snapshot from a world collapsing under its own weight. A cascade of atrocities wash over a population seemingly too stunned and powerless to act. Wealth is extracted and people suffer.”
The new album comprises a 10-track, produced by Chris Coady.
The album's title was inspired by Daniel Quinn's 1996 philosophical novel “The Story of B”.- The band said of the album, “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.”
They continued, “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.” -
Photo by Louie Kovatch - source : Apple Music
