Frog in Boiling Water
2024 studio album by DIIV
Frog in Boiling Water is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band DIIV, released on May 24, 2024, through Fantasy Records. It was produced by Chris Coady and preceded by the release of five singles: lead single "Brown Paper Bag", "Soul-net", "Everyone Out", "Frog in Boiling Water", and the final single, "Raining on Your Pillow". The album received positive reviews from critics.
Background
The band described Frog in Boiling Water as "more or less a collection of snapshots from various angles of our modern condition which we think highlights what this collapse looks like and, more particularly, what it feels like". The title is taken from Daniel Quinn's 1996 novel The Story of B.
Critical reception
Frog in Boiling Water received a score of 79 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on 14 reviews, which the website categorized as "Generally favorable reviews". Stereogum named it album of the week, with the site's Michael Tedder calling it "their most mature and best album, a sign that this is a band in it for the long haul", as well as the band's "most effortlessly beautiful record yet". Uncut called it "a beautiful-sounding record with tracks like 'Somber the Drums' and 'Everyone Out' providing moments of tender poppy beauty amid the general sense of decay".
Joe Goggins of DIY called the album "a highly conceptual and quietly furious piece that sifts through the wreckage of post-truth politics with disarming incision as well as "thrilling and thoughtful". Clash's Matthew Mclister found it to be "gloomier, even moodier and even more beautiful than their last" and that it "makes for a fascinating listen". Reviewing the album for Pitchfork, Ashley Bardhan described it as a "sour new album coping with capitalism.
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