DIIV is the nom-de-plume of Z, Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece, Enlisting the aid of NYC indie-scene-luminary, Devin Ruben Perez, former Smith Westerns drummer Colby Hewitt, and Mr, Smith's childhood friend Andrew Bailey, DIIV craft a sound that is at once familial and frost-bitten, Indebted to classic kraut, dreamy Creation-records psychedelia, and the primitive-crunch of late-80's Seattle, the band walk a divisive yet perfectly fused patch of classic-underground influence, One part THC and two parts MDMA; the first offering from DIIV chemically fuses the reminiscent with the half-remembered building a musical world out of old-air and new breeze, These are songs that remind us of love in all it's earthly perfections and perversions.