When Zachary Cole Smith started DIIV it was called Dive and it was simply a collection of his bedroom experiments. Apparently, he holed himself up in a Brooklyn apartment, wrote music, and absorbed the work of artists such as Lucinda Williams, Nirvana, Jandek, Hart Crane, and James Baldwin. These eclectic sounds and words combined with the heat of the summer must have made for a unique creative atmosphere.
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