DIIV Share New Single “Dare Me”, Announce ‘ZIRP!’ Album Release, and Reveal 2027 World Tour

DIIV are entering a new chapter with ZIRP!, their forthcoming fifth studio album that pushes their signature blend of shoegaze and grunge and melodic pop into new territory under the production of A. G. Cook. Alongside the album’s release the band is gearing up for an extensive world tour in 2027 – spanning North America, Europe, the UK, Australia, and Asia with appearances at major festivals along the way. The new era finds DIIV sharpening their sound and expanding their reach while continuing to challenge the boundaries of alternative music.

In a press release, DIIV’s team revealed that the band’s 2027 world tour will kick off on February 12 in Sydney, AU at the Laneway Festival, with the North American leg starting on April 4th in Minneapolis, MN at the Varsity Theater (full dates below).

ZIRP! album is set to be released this Friday.

“Dare Me,” the final track before the release of ZIRP! album, premiered as BBC Radio 1’s “Hottest Record” and arrives with a music video directed by Louie Kovatch where we see the band in their now signature business-wear in a vacant office space performing the track. ZIRP! includes the previously shared singles “Trillions,” “Kid,” and “The Fountain.” DIIV recently sat with Paste Magazine to discuss ZIRP!, working with A. G. Cook, and more. Stereogum also hailed ZIRP! their “Album of the Week,” where they stated “ZIRP! really does feel like a quantum leap. It’s the most stylish, dynamic, endlessly replayable album of DIIV’s career, animated by emotional currents that feel destined to strike a nerve. Buy up as many shares in this band as you can.”

Listen to “Dare Me”:

Additionally, DIIV announces their headline World Tour today. Across the 47-date run, DIIV will bring their energized live show to festivals in Australia and Japan, a full run across North American and across Europe and United Kingdom. Presales begin tomorrow and general on sale is this Friday, October 30th at 10am local. This November, DIIV will perform at Pitchfork Music Festival in both Paris and London along with Sonic City Festival in Beldian. Full live dates below. 

This is The New Alternative: a new genre for the 21st century. More specifically: a new genre for music’s optimized VC-funded super deluxe remixed AI-enhanced algorithmically perfected wild west 2020s, where a million streams is great, a billion even better, and a trillion well within reach. On their fifth album ZIRP!, DIIV emphatically and ecstatically embrace the underground pedigree and the pop instinct that have anchored the band like magnetic poles for the better part of their career—smashing them together in pursuit of a sound that pre-empts any notion that Zachary Cole Smith, Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield and Ben Newman have ever been playing between worlds. Put more simply, on ZIRP! DIIV answer the simple questions that so many bands can’t: What would it mean to grow up? And glow up, too?    

Watch the video for “Dare Me”:

For as long as they’ve been making music, DIIV have been victims of a world without the vocabulary to describe their willingness to braid the harshness of genres like shoegaze (on 2024’s Frog In Boiling Water) and grunge (2019’s Deceiver) with mellifluous and memorable pop melody. Over the years, the world has caught up with them, with artists like Slayyyter, Eartheater and Turnstile forcing old-guard gatekeepers to find new ways to describe this gleeful disregard for old-fashioned scene designations and genre tags. With ZIRP! – and their embrace of The New Alternative – DIIV lock in on a name for the universe they’ve been chasing for all these years, and a sound that represents the apotheosis of that universe. 

Produced by British pop wizard A. G. Cook (Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX) – a chief architect of our current post-category future – ZIRP!, named for the zero interest rate policies that drew us into a world of failed startups and turned us all into atomised “users,” expands on the themes of Frog In Boiling Water with a newfound lightness. Here, Palantir, societal breakdown and streaming’s endless hamster wheel are all fodder for rich, sparkling pop songs: Album opener and lead single “The Fountain” pairs the sprawl and squall of DIIV records past with a jolting rhythmic guitar section that has arena-filling potential. Throughout, the band is zeroing in on its punchiest, most memorable melodies to date, each new internal hook and tossed-off earworm indicative of a band more than ready to make good on its ability to play in the mainstream.

When DIIV initially approached Cook, the producer says, “it was in the spirit of destroying & rebuilding their demos, Screamadelica-style, into a finished product, but that hybrid, half-remix approach felt completely wrong to me.” Instead, he became a professor of DIIV studies, attending the band’s shows and forming a unified theory of where the band needed to go next. “I became a bit obsessed with their live sound, and insisted on recording live drums before most of the songs were even finished. We spent a lot of time recording intricate guitar parts with specific guitar pedals, and as little time as possible doing anything on a computer, at least by my standards,” he says. “After a few rounds of that, ZIRP! emerged as a concept, and a sort of utopian, dystopian mantra. For me it became a vehicle to push the band into new territory.”   

Check out “Dare Me” and pre-order / save ZIRP! above, see upcoming live dates and full album details below. 

ZIRP! | DIIV | October 30th, 2026

1. The Fountain

2. Kid

3. When The Glow Came For Us

4. Dare Me

5. The Crash

6. Trillions

7. Us Against You

8. Evangelizer

9. Underground

10. My Star

11. Idiot In The Sky

DIIV Upcoming Live Dates

11/2 – Paris, FR @ Pitchfork Music Festival

11/6 – Kortrijk, BE @ Sonic City Festival

11/7 – London, UK @ Pitchfork Music Festival

11/9 – Kingston, UK @ Circuit

DIIV 2027 World Tour Venues and Dates

AUS / ASIA

2/12 – Sydney, AU @ Laneway Festival

2/13 – Brisbane, AU @ Laneway Festival

2/19 – Melbourne, AU @ Laneway Festival

2/21 – Auckland, NZ @ Laneway Festival

2/24 – Tokyo, JP@ KANDA SQUARE HALL

2/25 – Tokyo, JP @ KANDA SQUARE HALL

NORTH AMERICA

4/7 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater

4/8 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre

4/9 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall

4/12 – Detroit, MI @ El Club

4/13 – Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall

4/15 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair

4/16 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza

4/17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw

4/18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

4/20 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring

4/21 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle

4/22 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel

4/23 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse

4/25 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (Downstairs)

4/26 – Dallas, TX @ AM/FM Backyard

4/27 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk

4/30 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre

5/2 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

5/7 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory

5/8 – Santa Barbara, CA @ SOhO Restaurant & Music Club

5/9 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre

5/10 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s

5/12 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall

5/13 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

5/15 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club

5/16 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall

5/17 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre

5/20 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren

5/21 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory at North Park

EUROPE / UK 

5/31 – Lille, FR @ L’Aéronef

6/1 – Paris, FR @ L’Olympia

6/2 – Rennes, FR @ Antipode

6/3 – Lyon, FR @ Transbordeur

6/3-6/5 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound

6/13 – Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret

6/14 – Hamburg, DE @ Gruenspan

6/16 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega

6/17 – Berlin, DE @ Huxleys Neue Welt

6/18 – Prague, CZ @ Roxy

6/19 – Vienna, AT @ Flex

6/20 – Munich, DE @ Nachtwerk

6/21 – Köln, DE @ Kantine

6/22 – Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik

6/24 – Brighton, UK @ Chalk

6/25 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall

6/26 – Glasgow, UK @ QMU

6/27 – Dublin, IE @ Opium

6/29 – Bristol, UK @ The Prospect Building

6/30 – London, UK @ Troxy

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