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 arrives on October 30. The hotline features a telemarketer‑style message heralding the LP as “the future of alternative multimedia entertainment,” Stereogum notes; Diiv’s own website playfully describes 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! marks 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 has continued to expand his empire since his 2024 triple‑LP Britpop. In addition to genre‑spanning releases and reissues from projects such as Thy Slaughter and Dux Content, the producer again collaborated closely with Charli XCX on the new LP Music, Fashion, Film.
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