Diiv Announce New A. G. Cook-Produced Album Via Hotline

Andrew Bailey of DIIV, 2023 (Getty Images)Diiv have made a stealth announcement of a new album, Zirp!, via a hotline number mailed to fans and teased on social media. Produced by A. G. Cook, the follow-up to Frog in Boiling Water is due October 30. The hotline presents a telemarketer-style message heralding the LP as “the future of alternative multimedia entertainment,” Stereogum notes; Diiv’s own website playfully touts the record as an emissary of “the new alternative: a new genre for the 21st century.”Coming two years after Frog in Boiling Water, Zirp! will mark the quickest turnaround for a Diiv LP yet, despite a chaotic interim period in which Zachary Cole Smith and his wife welcomed a second child and lost their home in the Altadena wildfires. Last May, the band released a stopgap single, “Return of Youth,” addressing the fallout from the fires.A. G. Cook, meanwhile, has continued to expand his empire since his last solo album, the 2024 triple-LP Britpop. As well as occasional, genre-spanning releases and reissues from projects such as Thy Slaughter and Dux Content, the producer once again worked closely with Charli XCX on new LP Music, Fashion, Film.Jazz Monroe is a music and culture writer based in London. His work also appears in The Guardian, The Independent, and elsewhere. ... Read More