Albums of the Month - October 2019

DIIV - Deceiver

Rough Trade Exclusive Translucent Galaxy. Includes bonus disc. Comes with DIIV Poster and Bonus 7" featuring Sparklehorse / Alex G Covers.

DIIV’s Deceiver is an audible catharsis: incisive guitars, crawling beat & squealing melodies gorged with fuzz, applied freely onto open wounds. With producer Sonny Diperri (My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, Protomartyr), the band’s signature melancholic dream pop takes cues from a heavier sonic palette, namely from grunge - a genre whose most prominent figure was notoriously taken by overpowering forces - but here frontman Zachary Cole Smith aspires to cicatrize, and he does so with his best writing ever.

Albums of the Month

1. DIIV - Deceiver

2. Metronomy - Metronomy Forever

3. Iggy Pop - Free

4. Brittany Howard - Jaime

5. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

6. Penguin Cafe - Handfuls of Night

7. Temples - Hot Motion

8. BlackWater Holylight - Veils of Winter

9. Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love

10. Vivian Girls - Memory