Is the Is Are

Rock · 2016 · 17 tracks · 1h 3m

Is the Is Are

Seventy-five minutes of interlocking guitar webs and submerged vocals. A sprawling, melancholic document of recovery and urban isolation.

It's like a 75-minute fever dream of beautiful guitars and late-night city vibes.

A sprawling, drug-fogged meditation on recovery that balances shimmering beauty with deep-seated anxiety.

Is the Is Are · vs · DIIV

Addiction+2.6σ

The writing leans far further into addiction than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 17 Tracks · 1h 3m

01

Out of Mind

3:08

02

Under the Sun

3:47

03

Bent (Roi’s Song)

5:40

04

Dopamine

3:56

05

Blue Boredom

2:33

06

Valentine

3:18

07

Yr Not Far

3:19

08

Take Your Time

4:58

09

Is the Is Are

3:09

10

Mire (Grant’s Song)

5:35

11

Incarnate Devil

4:43

12

(Fuck)

0:17

13

Healthy Moon

4:12

14

Loose Ends

3:13

15

(Napa)

1:44

16

Dust

4:34

17

Waste of Breath

5:23

Moments Worth Waiting For

The way the two guitars lock into a circular, hypnotic spiral at the start of Under the Sun.

The sudden shift into a darker, heavier sludge-metal texture on the track Mire.

Sky Ferreira's deadpan guest vocal on Blue Boredom providing a cold, Kim Gordon-esque contrast.

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