Kitty Empire 

Diiv: Oshin – review

Brooklyn's Diiv transcend dream-pop thanks to their Krautrock leanings, writes Kitty Empire
  
  


Those who like their indie rock watery and unresolved will find good dowsing here. Brooklyn's Diiv used to be called Dive; Diiv mainman Zachary Cole Smith is in a band called Beach Fossils, and the album's title is, basically, the word "ocean" spelt funny. On the dappled surfaces of this pretty record, the light skitters off trickling, Cure-like guitars. Cole Smith's words, meanwhile, are so vague, they sound like they are being mouthed by anemones. What rescues Oshin from being a set of aqueous dream-pop search engine tags is the band's latent Krautrock bent. Past Lives and Human really could go on for another couple of minutes, such is the lock of their grooves.

 

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