There is also something extremely fresh in the way DIIV take an age old sound and turn it into something magical and at times deeply beautiful.
It's this evocative approach to songwriting, rather than anything happening sonically, that suggests the infinite promise of DIIV's future.
The experience of Oshin is aqueous and amorphous in a way that makes using the term "rock" feel uncomfortable.
Oshin emphasizes a charmingly low-budget kind of grandeur, like Ride’s Nowhere reconstructed via laptop.
At its best, Oshin feels like standing in a cavernous room with hazy beams of light coming in from slits in the walls.
Oshin is undeniably a record tailored for driving around with some friends in the dead heat of summer, but the music also packs a range of raw emotions
It affects you whilst it’s there, combines strength with the sun’s rays for vitamin-fuelled feel-good non-synthetic euphoria. But then it leaves. And no one’s any the wiser.
It's clearly the product of a band in a conventional sense, one tightened like a corkscrew by relentless touring and songwriting.
The songs just don’t stick long enough to make more than an impression in the pillow.
Because it’s 2012 and because it’s tediously unassuming, people will listen to it in the background once or twice while skimreading blogs and forget about it within a year.
I be Diiving
Shoegaze Shoegaze. This album is pretty good Shoegaze. That’s about it lol. The album starts a little slow but it gets more consistent as it keeps going. I definitely find their latest record, Deceiver, to be much better than this one but I still like some of the stuff that’s going on here. I mean it’s Shoegaze come on. How Long Have You Known is the song I easily find to be the standout. Just the most memorable guitar melody, and it sticks with me and gives me ... read more
the first time i listened to this i was on my school bus and it was 6:30 am, so already it was going to be a disaster. i start playing the first song and i immediately know that this is gonna be tough, cuz staving off sleep while this was playing was gonna be a challenge. i'm trying my best not to fall asleep, but as the album continues i just get more and more drowsy. soon as the 4th song hit i was out of it, so my head hit the window and jolted me awake. after that i just bit the bullet and ... read more
You know how some people can taste music?
This shit tastest like soggy, one-day-old pepernoten (a dutch snack).
When I had covid a year ago I listened to this record on repeat, and one day I found a 3 month old bowl of pepernoten under my bed... I ate them all... it was disgusting... and now I'll always think about that when I listen to this record.
I can still smell them
It’s p boring for the most part and i’d probably only really get enjoyment from this if i was in a car on an empty highway with the night sky
This is a fantastic shoegaze album, and probably the best I've heard in a while. No wonder it's my brother favorite. "Doused" is the song that got my brother into overall music and rocky stuff, and thanks to him and his music taste, he got me into bands like FIDLAR and a lot of Garagey stuff, and I am grateful him for that. Anyways I am very disappointed I've listened to this record today, and not few days, months or even years back because this is beautiful album and I mean it. I ... read more
1 | (Druun) 2:07 | 76 |
2 | Past Lives 2:21 | 81 |
3 | Human 2:57 | 85 |
4 | Air Conditioning 4:30 | 82 |
5 | How Long Have You Known 3:33 | 95 |
6 | Wait 3:15 | 87 |
7 | Earthboy 3:14 | 85 |
8 | (Druun, Pt. II) 2:46 | 82 |
9 | Follow 2:45 | 91 |
10 | Sometime 3:05 | 89 |
11 | Oshin (Subsume) 3:32 | 87 |
12 | Doused 3:42 | 90 |
13 | Home 2:29 | 89 |
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