It’s been nearly a yr in the past to the day since DIIV shared their newest studio album Frog In Boiling Water, however the band has endured a number of life modifications in that quick time. In January, frontman Zachary Cole Smith’s home in Altadena was destroyed within the Los Angeles-area wildfires, as have been all the newborn provides he and his spouse had accrued for his or her two youngsters. As we speak, DIIV have returned with their first new music since then, the emotional single “Return Of Youth.” It comes with an accompanying music video filmed within the aftermath of Smith’s destroyed neighborhood.
“Return Of Youth” is gradual and contemplative, with Smith’s narrator craving some blissful ignorance: “Information me on a path that leads/ Harmless and dumb/ To a newfound naivety.” He has a number of perception concerning the monitor’s backstory, writing in a press launch:
hello
diiv has a brand new track out as we speak, “return of youth”. sorry for the lengthy assertion
‘frog’ was an album that targeted our gaze outward on the world round us. it captured a sequence of snapshots of our situation, in confusion and disgust and awe.
the writing interval for this album was a part of a stupendous time in my life, as we ready and waited for our first youngster to be born. that magnificence was minimize with a profound existential dilemma: how can we carry a toddler into this world?
the widespread thread operating by way of the fragmented world of the album was hope. we’ve talked about it a bit. actual hope, false hope, one thing to provide your life which means. its a person journey. i discovered it in parenthood, however yow will discover it anyplace you need.
“return of youth” was written earlier than our son was born, a projection, zooming in till the bigger existential dilemmas have been out of body. the place “fender on the freeway” discovered peace within the patterns of a big macro, this one finds it in an earthly and easy micro. i imagined seeing myself by way of the eyes of my youngster, a rebirth of kinds, laced with worry and insecurity, discovering magnificence and serenity collectively within the easiest locations.
on the very starting of the yr my household and that i misplaced our house and every little thing we owned to the wildfires in altadena, ca. we had been getting ready for the beginning of our second son. we have been dwelling within the stunning world at house that i had imagined on this track, and directly that world was gone.
after we re-approached this track to lastly launch it, i couldn’t assist however hear the track in a different way within the aftermath. what makes a house? are you able to ever escape the surface world? is hope only a delusion? is anybody truly ready to be a mum or dad? how CAN you carry a toddler into this world?
i discovered once more the large questions have been irrelevant. you simply carry on dwelling i assume. life occurs on life’s phrases.
anyway, make of the track and the video no matter you need, it’s only a snapshot, albeit a extra private one this time.
get pleasure from.
Cole
Watch the music video for “Return Of Youth” under.
