{"id":9634,"date":"2026-07-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/diiv-announce-a-g-cook-produced-album-zirp-with-cryptic-phone-hotline\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:00:00","slug":"diiv-announce-a-g-cook-produced-album-zirp-with-cryptic-phone-hotline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/diiv-announce-a-g-cook-produced-album-zirp-with-cryptic-phone-hotline\/","title":{"rendered":"DIIV announce A. G. Cook-produced album ZIRP! with cryptic phone hotline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A pre-save page for <em>ZIRP!<\/em> appeared on the band\u2019s Instagram over the weekend, while Cook re-shared a teaser on his own stories. Around the same time, some fans received physical business cards in the post; a QR code on each card points to DIIV\u2019s website and displays the phone number +1 229-798-9477. <\/p>\n<p>Call that number and you are met with a telemarketer-style message that announces <em>ZIRP!<\/em> as \u201cthe future of alternative multimedia entertainment,\u201d before rattling off a series of empty startup imperatives: a promise to \u201cchallenge assumptions,\u201d \u201ccreate entire new categories,\u201d and \u201cthink on a global scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" data-embed-height=\"740\"><p>Posts from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/diiv\/comments\/1v6d21r\/zirp_new_diiv_album_produced_by_ag_cook_out\/\">diiv<\/a><br \/>community on Reddit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The partnership arrives at a moment when Cook\u2019s career is the talk of the town: between his side project Thy Slaughter, 2024&#8217;s triple-album <em>Britpop<\/em>, production work on Charli xcx&#8217;s <em>Music, Fashion, Film<\/em>, and his role in the soundtrack for her mockumentary, <em>The Moment<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>For DIIV&#8217;s part: this will be the follow up to 2024\u2019s <em>Frog in Boiling Water<\/em>, their fourth, which was produced by Chris Coady (IAN SWEET, Future Islands, Blondshell). Formed in 2011 in New York, DIIV has been in its current lineup iteration since 2019&#8217;s <em>Deceiver<\/em>: led by Zachary Cole Smith with Andrew Bailey on guitar, Colin Caulfield on bass, and Ben Newman on drums. <\/p>\n<h3><em>ZIRP!<\/em> artwork<\/h3>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"mb-8 \">\n<div class=\"relative \" style=\" padding-top: 99.609375%\">\n            \n        <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelineofbestfit.com\/news\/diiv-announce-ag-cook-produced-album-zirp-with-cryptic-phone-hotline\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pre-save page for ZIRP! appeared on the band\u2019s Instagram over the weekend, while Cook re-shared a teaser on his own stories. Around the same time, some fans received physical business cards in the post; a QR code on each card points to DIIV\u2019s website and displays the phone number +1 229-798-9477. 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