{"id":2446706,"date":"2019-07-24T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=862788"},"modified":"2019-07-24T08:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:01:23","slug":"hear-brooklyn-rockers-diiv-preview-first-album-in-three-years-with-skin-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-brooklyn-rockers-diiv-preview-first-album-in-three-years-with-skin-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Brooklyn Rockers DIIV Preview First Album in Three Years With \u2018Skin Game\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DIIV_by_Coley_Brown_Press_Shots_June_20_2019_Final_Selects-01.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Brooklyn indie rock outfit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/diiv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_diiv\" data-tag=\"diiv\">DIIV<\/a> unveiled a rumbling new song, \u201cSkin Game,\u201d the first offering from their upcoming album <em>Deceiver.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cSkin Game\u201d finds DIIV putting a heavier spin on the familiar shoegaze-y whirl of their earlier recordings, as meandering guitar lines shimmer then expand into a deafening crunch. In a statement, frontman Zachary Cole Smith described the song as \u201can imaginary dialogue between two characters, which could either be myself or people I know.\u201d He added that the song was partly inspired by his recent stints in rehab facilities and the experience of coming to grips with addiction and recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI spent six months in several different rehab facilities at the beginning of 2017,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI was living with other addicts. Being a recovering addict myself, there are a lot of questions like, \u2018Who are we? What is this disease?\u2019 Our last record was about recovery in general, but I truthfully didn\u2019t buy in. I decided to live in my disease instead. \u2018Skin Game\u2019 looks at where the pain comes from. I\u2019m looking at the personal, physical, emotional, and broader political experiences feeding into the cycle of addiction for millions of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Deceiver<\/em>, out October 4th via Captured Tracks, marks DIIV\u2019s third album and follows their 2016 offering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/is-the-is-are-192583\/\"><em>Is the Is Are<\/em><\/a>, as well as their 2012 debut, <em>Oshin<\/em>. The band recorded the new record in Los Angeles this March, working with an outside producer for the first time in Sonny Diperri, who has previously worked on albums by My Bloody Valentine and Nine Inch Nails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">DIIV will embark on a North American tour in support of <em>Deceiver<\/em> October 11th with a set at the Desert Daze Festival in Perris, California. The first leg wraps October 27th at the Black Cat in Washington D.C., but December 5th the band will kick off a West Coast run at Belly Up Tavern in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Deceiver&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><strong>Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cHorsehead\u201d<br \/>2. \u201cLike Before You Were Born\u201d<br \/>3. \u201cSkin Game\u201d<br \/>4. \u201cBetween Tides\u201d<br \/>5. \u201cTaker\u201d<br \/>6. \u201cFor the Guilty\u201d<br \/>7. \u201cThe Spark\u201d<br \/>8. \u201cLorelai\u201d<br \/>9. \u201cBlankenship\u201d<br \/>10. \u201cAcheron\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/diiv-new-song-skin-game-new-album-deceiver-862788\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn indie rock outfit DIIV unveiled a rumbling new song, \u201cSkin Game,\u201d the first offering from their upcoming album Deceiver. \u201cSkin Game\u201d finds DIIV putting a heavier spin on the familiar shoegaze-y whirl of their earlier recordings, as meandering guitar lines shimmer then expand into a deafening crunch. In a statement, frontman Zachary Cole Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 03:09:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}