DIIV’s ZIRP! is out, and the band are already heading towards their next run of appearances. The eleven-track album arrived on October 30 through Fantasy, produced by A. G. Cook. “Dare Me”, the last of its advance singles, now has a place in the full sequence as track four.
Louie Kovatch directed the accompanying video, putting DIIV in business clothes inside an office. On the record, “Dare Me” follows “The Fountain”, “Kid” and “When The Glow Came For Us”. The sequence eventually closes with “Idiot In The Sky”. All eleven tracks are available together, after a campaign that also introduced “Trillions”.
Cook has described a recording process with live drums laid down before most of the songs were finished. He also points to guitar parts worked out with particular pedals. For anyone wondering what his production credit means for DIIV, those are firmer clues than assuming that the guitars have simply given way to a computer. This remains a record made by Zachary Cole Smith, Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield and Ben Newman, with Cook involved in how the parts take shape.
Is the November 8 appearance a gig?
No. Rough Trade East in London is hosting a Q&A and signing that day, with no performance. The concert comes the following evening, November 9, at Circuit in Kingston. It is advertised as an intimate outstore show. Getting the dates right still leaves the question of which event you actually want to attend.
Before those two appointments, DIIV are scheduled for Paris on November 2, Sonic City in Kortrijk on November 6 and London’s Pitchfork Music Festival on November 7. That puts the new album in listeners’ hands only a few days before these European appearances.
Where do the June shows take them?
- June 24 — Brighton, Chalk; June 25 — Manchester, Albert Hall.
- June 26 — Glasgow, QMU; June 27 — Dublin, Opium.
- June 29 — Bristol, Prospect Building; June 30 — London, Troxy.
There are six UK and Ireland concerts across seven calendar days in 2027. The first four happen on consecutive nights. After Dublin, June 28 leaves a break before Bristol and London. Anyone following that first stretch needs to allow for the crossing to Ireland as well as the distances between the British venues.
Australia, New Zealand and Japan come earlier in the wider 2027 itinerary, followed by North American and continental European dates. For UK listeners, the immediate choice is smaller and sooner: a conversation and signing on November 8, or the Kingston performance on November 9. The June run is a separate trip to plan.
