COVER IMAGE
CD released: Feb 05, 2016

Tracklisting:
1. Out Of Mind
2. Under The Sun
3. Bent (Roi's Song)
4. Dopamine
5. Blue Boredom (Feat. Sky Ferreira)
6. Valentine
7. Yr Not Far
8. Take Your Time
9. Is The Is Are
10. Mire (Grant's Song)
11. Incarnate Devil
12. (f*#k)
13. Healthy Moon
14. Loose Ends
15. (napa)
16. Dust
17. Waste Of Breath
DIIV
IS THE IS ARE
Label: CAPTURED TRACKS
Cat No: CT231CD
Barcode: 817949011703
Packaging: CD Jewel Case

Is the Is Are, the highly-anticipated sophomore release from Brooklyn-based DIIV, is an album years and many personal struggles in the making for it's architect, Zachary Cole Smith. Recorded and mixed in various locations in Brooklyn, it showcases everything you know and love about DIIV, and many things you did not, all with an added nuance and depth. It is a 17-song, double-album statement intended to resonate with its audience in much the same way that Bad Moon Rising or Tago Mago has for Smith himself.
An extension and deepening of the musical ideas first expressed on 2012's critically-lauded Oshin, Is the Is Are yields a multiplicity of textures, lyrical themes, and moods. It is a more diverse world than Oshin, with different parameters and ideals. Dark and honest to a fault, the new songs are dynamic, loud, quiet, sad; they are songs that hiss and snarl; songs that, as Smith wrote recently, represent "the real me." Smith's vocals, too, are much closer to the foreground, layered legibly on top of tidal waves of shimmering guitar and melodic bass weaving in and out, leaving a distinct and indelible imprint.

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