DIIV (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)
DIIV have premiered a video for Skin Game, the lead single from their recently released new album Deceiver.
“It’s an imaginary dialogue between two characters, which could either be myself or people I know,” Zachary Cole Smith has said of the track.
“I spent six months in several different rehab facilities at the beginning of 2017. I was living with other addicts. Being a recovering addict myself, there are a lot of questions like, ‘Who are we? What is this disease?’ Our last record was about recovery in general, but I truthfully didn’t buy in. I decided to live in my disease instead.”
“Skin Game looks at where the pain comes from. I’m looking at the personal, physical, emotional, and broader political experiences feeding into the cycle of addiction for millions of us.”
Deceiver was recorded during the March of this year in Los Angeles, when the band enlisted an ‘outside’ producer, Sonny Diperri, for the first time.
