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DIIV - Oshin
Released: 16/07/2012
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Like fellow dream-pop enthusiasts Dead Mellotron, Brooklyn's DIIV (pronounced ‘dive') arrive riding high on a wave of blogosphere buzz. On Oshin the four-piece mix atmospheric guitars with krautrock precision, producing a debut heavily in debt to the golden age of Creation Records and, in its autumnal moodiness, a fitting soundtrack to the British ‘summer'.
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The A.V. Club“It may be out to sea, but Oshin is anything but lost...” Oshin emphasizes a charmingly low-budget kind of grandeur, like Ride’s Nowhere reconstructed via laptop. That album is one of DIIV’s biggest touchstones, though repeated listens reveal an impressive range of influences...
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Clash Music“Each song a building block on an overall journey...” Drums however fall to the background as melodic guitars jangle and float brilliantly between each other, rising and falling like waves in the ocean...
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The Observer“Those who like their indie rock watery will find good dowsing here...” What rescues Oshin from being a set of aqueous dream-pop search engine tags is the band's latent Krautrock bent...
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Drowned In Sound“An addictive listen...” Pitched somewhere between physical pleasure and mental torture, is Oshin, dream-weaving, benevolent, sadistic puppet masters Diiv playing havoc with your sense of contentedness...
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Guardian“It's likely you'll be momentarily dazzled...” The trouble with listening to these songs en masse is that each one blurs into the next, making the whole unmemorable...
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The Line of Best Fit“Not a record you just dip into, you’ll want to devour the whole thing...” We thought the water sign connection between them was just a great story, but maybe Smith is onto something with his pseudoscience after all…
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MusicOMH“DIIV take an age old sound and turn it into something magical...” Reminiscent of the guitar sounds conjured up in the '80s by groups like The Cure and Cocteau Twins, DIIV are very much about textures and soundscapes over traditional song forms...
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Pitchfork“Post-Fugazi emo drunk on reverb...” DIIV have made a compelling debut where what the band is actually about is fairly unimportant. But since Oshin deftly defines what they do, and what they do now, this mystery is likely a temporary state...
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