DIIV Detail New Album ZIRP!, Unveil Lead Single “The Fountain”: Stream

After last week’s cryptic soft launch, Brooklyn shoegaze vets DIIV have officially detailed ZIRP!, their upcoming fifth studio album. As noted via business cards sent to fans through the mail, the follow-up to 2024’s Frog in Boiling Water was produced by A.G. Cook (Caroline Polachek and Charli XCX). The 11-track derives its name from the “zero interest rate policies that drew us into a world of failed startups and turned us all into atomized ‘users,'” according to a press release. That capitalistic-sounding title really fits as the LP helps introduce DIIV’s “The New Alternative,” which is described as “a new genre…for music’s optimized VC-funded super deluxe remixed AI-enhanced algorithmically perfected wild west 2020s, where a million streams is great, a billion even better, and a trillion well within reach.” Get DIIV Tickets Here Across ZIRP!, themes like “Palantir, societal breakdown, and streaming’s endless hamster wheel are all fodder for rich, sparkling pop songs.” Musically, DIIV have “emphatically and ecstatically embraced the underground pedigree and the pop instinct that have anchored the band like magnetic poles for the better part of their career — smashing them togethe...