DIIV have shared new single ‘Return of Youth’, their first release of 2025. The track arrives alongside a music video documenting the aftermath of the January Los Angeles wildfires that destroyed frontman Zachary Cole Smith’s home.
The single explores themes of parenthood and uncertainty, written before the birth of Smith’s child. “Return of Youth’ was written before our son was born, a projection, zooming in until the larger existential dilemmas were out of frame… this one finds it in a mundane and simple micro’, Smith says. ‘I imagined seeing myself through the eyes of my child, a rebirth of sorts, laced with fear and insecurity, discovering beauty and serenity together in the simplest places’.
Following the loss of his home to wildfires earlier this year, Smith reflects on revisiting the track: ‘We were living in the beautiful world at home that I had imagined in this song, and at once that world was gone’. He adds, ‘When we re-approached this song to finally release it, I couldn’t help but hear the song differently in the aftermath. What makes a home? Can you ever escape the outside world? Is hope just a delusion? Is anyone actually prepared to be a parent? How CAN you bring a child into this world? I found again the big questions were irrelevant. You just keep on living I guess. Life happens on life’s terms’.
The dates in full read:
MAY
24 Teragram Theater, Los Angeles, US
25 Teragram Theater, Los Angeles, US
26 Teragram Theater, Los Angeles, US
JUNE
4 Naval Store, Fremantle, AU
7 Day Tripper Festival, Melbourne, AU
8 Northcote Theatre, Northcote, AU
12 Odeon Theater, Hobart, AU
13 Vivid Festival (Carriageworks), Sydney, AU
14 Princess Theater, Brisbane, AU
AUGUST
8 Lokerse Feesten Festival, Lokeren, BE
10 Palp Festival, Val de Bagnes, CH
11 KIFF, Aarau, CH
13 Relache, Bordeaux, FR
14 Motocultor Festival, Carhaix-plouguer, FR
15 Dabadaba, Donostia-Sain Sebastian, ES
16 Paredes de Coura Festival, Coura, PT
18 Mojotic Festival (Teatro Arena Conchiglia), Sestri Levante, IT
19 Ama Music Festival, Romano D’Ezzelino, IT
21 SEI Festival, Corigliano D’Otranto, IT
23 Canela Party, Torremolinos, ES
26 Blind, Istanbul, TK
27 Blind, Istanbul, TK
30 End of the Road Festival, Salisbury, UK
31 Project House, Leeds, UK
SEPTEMBER
1 Vicar Street, Dublin, IE
3 Here at Outernet, London, UK
5 Zero for Three Festival (Muziekgieterij), Maastricht, NL
6 Misty Fields, Heusden Gem Asten, NL
7 Paard, The Hague, NL
8 Splendid, Lille, FR
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