your humble narrator.

“I feel like there’s all this weird mythology that sort of surrounds me, and it distracts from the purity of the band. If somebody mentioned DIIV, they wouldn’t hum the song, they’d be like, ’Oh yeah, the guy who got pulled over driving a stolen car with heroin in it.’ I really hate that.”

response to ‘Dopamine’ has been unbelievable so far, yr support is everything to me. because I see this song as a perfect bridge from all the music we’ve released in the past to the music we’re gearing up to release in the near future. there are sonic similarities, but this music is meant to be more urgent and immediate. warning: this may sound pretentious but here it goes. 'Dopamine’ is a description of a visceral experience, and the vocals are mixed up-front because they’re meant to illustrate the immediacy of that experience, of meeting something with its polar opposite. I’ve seen some people saying the vocals are hard to discern, which sucks but it just comes with the territory of the sound I’m trying to work in. If you can’t understand the lyrics, here they are:

DOPAMINE:

shots wringing out i’m soaking eardrums shaking and years start weighing me DOWN

crawling out from a spiral down im fixing now to mix the white and BROWN

passing out running in place you’re the sun and i am your CLOUD

burning out running in place i got so high i finally felt like MYSELF

shots wringing out i’m soaking eardrums shaking and the years started weighing me DOWN

buried deep in a heroine sleep and floating deeper UNDERGROUND

passing out running in place you are the sun and i was your CLOUD