DIIV Vinyl Records
The project of singer/songwriter/guitarist Zachary Cole Smith, DIIV make music that combines shoegaze bliss with grunge catharsis. The influence of Nirvana and My Bloody Valentine was evident on their 2012 debut album, Oshin, but the band's sound deepened and broadened on 2016's Is the Is Are, which paired Malian-inspired guitar melodies with Smith's confessional songwriting, and on 2019's heavier-sounding exploration of trauma, Deceiver.