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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
In March, in the midst of performing as part of the yearly Austin, Texas music-industry grind known as SXSW, DIIV frontman Zachary Cole Smith made the following statement on his band’s blog: “Here, the music comes last…The ‘music’ element is all a front, it’s the first thing to be compromised. Corporate money everywhere but in the hands of the artists, at what is really just a glorified corporate networking party. Drunk corporate goons and other industry vampires and cocaine. Everyone is drunk, being cool. ‘Official’ bureaucracy and all their mindless rules. Branding, branding, branding. It’s bullshit…sorry.”
Clad in an oversized knit sweater, his bleach-blond hair pointing at a half-dozen different angles, DIIV frontman Z. Cole Smith prefaces our chat with a disclaimer: He never expected the band to go anywhere.
The side project of Beach Fossils’ Zachary Cole Smith, DIIV has the nectar of its predecessors running through its lo-fi veins. (via FILTER Magazine - Reviews - DIIV)
