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Over the weekend DIIV played Los Angeles’ Teragram Ballroom and did back-to-back live debuts of two songs: “Fender On The Freeway” from last year’s Frog In Boiling Water and their new single “Return Of Youth,” one of the 5 Best Songs Of The Week and the first song the band released since frontman Zachary Cole Smith lost his house in the LA wildfires. In the press release for the new song, Smith compared the two tracks, saying: “Where ‘Fender On The Freeway’ found peace in the patterns of a gigantic macro, this one finds it in a mundane and simple micro.” Now, DIIV can also find peace in the $1 million novelty check they received from ExxonMobil during that show.
