Diiv are again with a brand new track, “Return of Youth.” The monitor’s accompanying music video was filmed after the fires in Altadena, California, that destroyed a whole lot of companies and houses, together with one belonging to Diiv frontman Zachary Cole Smith. You possibly can see the video under.
Smith, his pregnant spouse, and two-year-old son safely evacuated their Altadena home earlier than it was misplaced in January’s lethal wildfires, however Smith’s good friend launched a GoFundMe on the artist’s behalf to assist recoup the lack of their home, musical devices, automotive, and extra belongings. With all that’s occurred since then, together with what’s captured on this new video, Smith shared an extended assertion tied to “Return of Youth”:
hello
diiv has a brand new track out right this moment, “return of youth”. sorry for the lengthy assertion
‘frog’ was an album that centered our gaze outward on the world round us. it captured a collection of snapshots of our situation, in confusion and disgust and awe.
the writing interval for this album was a part of a wonderful time in my life, as we ready and waited for our first baby to be born. that magnificence was reduce with a profound existential dilemma: how can we convey a toddler into this world?
the frequent thread working 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 that means. its a person journey. i discovered it in parenthood, however you 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 had been out of body. the place “fender on the freeway” discovered peace within the patterns of a big macro, this one finds it in a secular and easy micro. i imagined seeing myself by way of the eyes of my baby, a rebirth of kinds, laced with concern 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 residence and all the things we owned to the wildfires in altadena, ca. we had been making ready for the beginning of our second son. we had been dwelling within the stunning world at residence that i had imagined on this track, and directly that world was gone.
once we re-approached this track to lastly launch it, i couldn’t assist however hear the track otherwise 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 mother or father? how CAN you convey a toddler into this world?
