Diiv Share Video for New Song Recorded After Altadena Fires

DIIV’s ‘Return Of Youth’ Video Is A Haunting Reminder Of Everything Lost In the California Wildfires

After releasing 2024’s best “political shoegaze album,” DIIV are back with a new song. “Return Of Youth” was recorded around the Frog In Boiling Water sessions, but it took on a different meaning after frontman Zachary Cole Smith and his family lost their home in the California wildfires. “at the very beginning of the year my family and i lost our home and everything we owned to the wildfires in altadena, ca,” he wrote in a statement. “we had be…

Diiv Share Video for New Song Recorded After Altadena Fires

The “Return of Youth” visual follows Zachary Cole Smith after he and his family lost their California home

Track & Video: DIIV Confront Hope and Loss Amidst Californian Wildfire Aftermath With New Release ‘Return of Youth’ + UK/EU/AUS Tour Dates

A year after ‘Frog in Boiling Water‘, DIIV return with their first new release – ‘Return of Youth‘, a quietly devastating single that trades widescreen collapse for something far more personal.Unsurprisingly, the track is a masterclass in shoegaze’s more delicate corners: layered, intimate, and full of restraint. It’s a noticeable shift from the chaos and corrosion that coloured FIBW. Where that record was concrete weight and cold surfaces, ‘Ret…

At the beginning of 2025, Zachary Cole Smith turned out to be one of the hundreds affected by the fires that broke out in Los Angeles, as his home and belongings were consumed by fire. At that time a campaign was launched to anchor the basic expenses for both him and his wife and son, so he has gradually been returning to his activities with DIIV on tour in other cities of the United States. Following that tragedy, the band met in the studio to …

DIIV Share Video for New Song ‘Return of Youth’

DIIV have returned with a new song, ‘Return of Youth’, the band’s first new music since last year’s Frog in Boiling Water. It was recorded after the fires in Altadena, California, that resulted in frontman Zachary Cole Smith losing his home. “Breathe silent hope/ Into a world unknown/ Guide me on a path that leads/ Innocent and dumb,” he sings on the track, whose music video, too, surveys the aftermath. Check it out below. In a lengthy statement…

DIIV Share New Single "Return Of Youth": Listen

It’s been almost a year ago to the day since DIIV shared their latest studio album Frog In Boiling Water, but the band has endured a lot of life changes in that short time. In January, frontman Zachary Cole Smith’s house in Altadena was destroyed in the Los Angeles-area wildfires, as were all the baby supplies he and his wife had accrued for their two children. Today, DIIV have returned with their first new music since then, the emotional single…