Press Release from
Life or Death PR & Management:
DIVE is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece.
Recently inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIVE created instant vibrations in the blog-world with their impressionistic debut "Sometime"; finding it's way onto the esteemed pages of Pitchfork and Altered Zones a mere matter of weeks after the group's formation.
Enlisting the aid of NYC indie-scene-luminary, Devin Ruben Perez, former Smith Westerns drummer Colby Hewitt, and Mr. Smith's childhood friend Andrew Bailey, DIVE craft a sound that is at once familial and frost-bitten. Indebted to classic kraut, dreamy Creation-records psychedelia, and the primitive-crunch of late-80's Seattle, the band walk a divisive yet perfectly fused patch of classic-underground influence.
One part THC and two parts MDMA; the first offering from DIVE chemically fuses the reminiscent with the half-remembered building a musical world out of old-air and new breeze. These are songs that remind us of love in all it's earthly perfections and perversions.
A lot of DIVE's magnetism was birthed in the process Mr. Smith went through to discover these initial compositions. After returning from a US tour with Beach Fossils, Cole made a bold creative choice, settling into the window-facing corner of a painter's studio in Bushwick, sans running water, holing up to craft his music.
In this AC-less wooden room, throughout the thick of the summer, Cole surrounded himself with cassettes and LP's, the likes of Lucinda Williams, Arthur Russell, Faust, Nirvana, and Jandek; writings of N. Scott Momaday, James Welsh, Hart Crane, Marianne Moore, and James Baldwin; and dreams of aliens, affection, spirits, and the distant natural world (as he imagined it from his window facing the Morgan L train).
The resulting music is as cavernous as it is enveloping, asking you to get lost in it's tangles in an era that demands your attention be focused into 140 characters.
Since that fateful summer, the band have waged a full throttle attack on the nation's venues, where the mellow, sometimes melancholic vibes of those early transmissions morph into a manic, crashing thing, providing an apt preview of DIVE's debut LP Oshin due on Captured Tracks on June 26th. Catch DIVE on tour now.
Listen - "How Long Have You Known?":
http://soundcloud.com/wegetpress/dive-how-long-have-you-known Listen - "Bambi Slaughter (Kurt Cobain Cover)":
http://soundcloud.com/wegetpress/dive-covers-kurt-cobain-home/s-uzEMm Read - Pitchfork Rising:
http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8804-dive/ Tour Dates
4/13/12 @ Club Dada- Dallas, TX
4/14/12 @ Red 7- Austin, TX
4/16/12 @ Rhythm Room- Phoenix, AZ
4/18/12 @ Soda Bar- San Diego, CA
4/19/12 @ The Satellite- Los Angeles, CA
4/20/12 @ The Crepe Place- Santa Cruz, CA
4/21/12 @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall- San Francisco, CA
4/23/12 @ East End- Portland, OR
4/24/12 @ Biltmore Cabaret- Vancouver, BC
4/25/12 @ Barboza- Seattle, WA
4/26/12 @ The Palace- Missoula, MT
4/28/12 @ The Aquarium (Dempsey's Upstairs)- Fargo, ND
4/29/12 @ 7th Street Entry- Minneapolis, MN
4/30/12 @ Township- Chicago, IL
5/01/12 @ Magic Stick- Detroit, MI
5/02/12 @ The Shop Under Parts and Labor- Toronto, ON
5/03/12 @ Valentine's- Albany, NY
5/05/12 @ Mercury Lounge- New York, NY
