The album cycle for DIIV’s fourth album, 2024’s Frog In Boiling Water, kicked off with the viral soul-net.co infinite website/single in Fall 2023, while they were touring with Depeche Mode and carried on through 2025 before wrapping with the release of a live document of the album – Boiled Alive – which came out in December of that year; first as a film, available to rent or buy, and then as a live album released a week later.

Now, with the announcement of their next album Zirp!, out on October 30, they’ve drawn a line under Frog with the release of the Boiled Alive film for all to see on YouTube. It was filmed over the band’s three-night stand at Telegram Ballroom in Los Angeles in May 2025, and does an excellent job of capturing the high-concept oddness of the live show on the Frog tour.

Of the film at the time of release, the band said:

As a band we’ve always been at our best in a live concert environment. We care as much about the quality of our shows as we do about our albums. Filming the Frog set felt like a way to make our live show more accessible to everyone and an opportunity to further build out the world of the album. We hope you enjoy what we made.

DIIV
DIIV Announce Experimental Concert Film, Live Album ‘Boiled Alive’ @ Clash

And director Jason Whittington added:

After one meeting at DIIV’s studio I felt extremely inspired by how they introduced this project to me and knew I would enjoy working with them. The band had already created such a beautiful and complex world surrounding the album which I found intriguing, making it easy to build upon. I don’t think this could have been made with any other group of people at any other time.

Jason Whittington
DIIV Announce Experimental Concert Film, Live Album ‘Boiled Alive’ @ Clash