DIIV share ‘Mire (Grant’s Song)’ from forthcoming album

DIIV have shared new track ‘Mire (Grant’s song) - the third song aired as the band continue to preview their much-anticipated second album, ‘Is the Is Are’. Following on from ‘Dopamine’ and ‘Bent (Roi’s song)’, this latest offering sees DIIV sounding their darkest yet.

The song was originally aired on Mexico City’s Ibero 90.9FM as a way of thanks to fans on their recent tour of South America. The track has since been shared online, and been accompanied by a blog post from Zachary Cole Smith in which he explains his reasoning for airing the track, the significance of the name’s associated with songs off the album, and what to expect from ‘Is the Is Are’ as a record.

He writes: “it’s so easy to put ‘pop single’ out there, because that’s I guess what people want to hear? and this isn’t really a ‘single’ or anything like that, but i really feel like this song will help make the album make more sense. i guess it kind of hurts me to read over and over reviews of our songs where everything is called ‘reverby, beachy, happy, etc’, where the listener/reviewer can barely listen past our specific sonic palette and hear the actual SONG that makes use of that palette… i feel like this song represents a really important aspect of this album, and to only represent the ‘pop single’ side of it wouldn’t be fair to the album itself.”

Stream the track below, or to read the full blog post head to the DIIV Tumblr.

Catch up on what was said when we spoke to Cole from the studio during the recording of ‘Is the Is Are’.