Dive In - Eighteen

It’s a bit Naked & Famous. It’s a bit Prides. It’s a bit Passion Pit. It’s a bit Magic Man. It’s got these weird kooky vocals that have a hint of the androgynous about them. It’s got some big synth riffs. It’s got lyrics about being the long lost love of your teens. It’s sugared with an effervescent and joyous pop melody. It’s music to raise the spirits and give you hope. It’s music that is all the colours of the rainbow complete with a dancing leprechaun and a pot of gold at the end. It’s like the words sadness and despondency don’t exist. It’s music too take you to the stars and then some. 

That ladies and gentlemen is Eighteen the brand new song from Dive In, a band who appeared once on the blog way back in August 2013 and then promptly disappeared, until now. It’s good to have them back, albeit now they appear to be just a power trio (Mathew, Daniel and Adam) - previous promo shots from 2013 showed them as a four piece.

The song, which was produced by the band and Andy Green (Keane) and mixed by Alan Moulder (Royal Blood, The Killers, White Lies), is taken from their forthcoming 5 track EP on Vagrant Records. The band play London’s Lexington on the 5th August.

Dive In - Eighteen

Dive In - Let Go (EMBRZ Remix)

Free download time. Dive In got us grabbing our shades, jumping in our open topped sportscar and racing down to the south coast and the beach, the wind and sun streaming through our hair as we went last year with their song Let Go.

That was until we realised we didn’t own an open topped sports car (a Toyota Auris just isn’t quite the same is it – but hey at least its reliable and comfy, even if the stolen Jai Paul album sounds rubbish in it), already live on the south coast not far from the beach and don’t really have any hair for the wind or sun to stream through. Oops.

Now, considering that we featured Let Go last August, you’d expect that the record's shelf life had probably expired, but no, now Dive In have pushed out a remix from Irish producer EMBRZ (not to confused with the band Embers) a more chilled dreamy affair than the upbeat summer pop of the original. Dive In support the lovely Pawws at The Lexington on February 12th.

Dive In - Let Go (EMBRZ Remix)

Dive In - New Waves

This band's name sounds like they're inviting you to take the plunge for a cooling summer swim and certainly their debut pop tune is full of sunny delights.

Dive In (not to be confused for a shortened version of At The Drive In - a far different prospect) are from Glastonbury. This probably means hundreds of potential references to THAT festival when people write about them, or even worse unfair comparisons to Reef, another band from that neck of the woods; the band that asked us to Place Your Hands although the only place we wanted to place them was over our ears.

However once we remember that (as The Stone Roses once said) music's not about where you're from but where you're at, we imagine Dive In being on the beach, shimmying up to us in silky shirts, cocktail glasses in hand singing about how they want to know how we really feel. Basically they make us feel like Wham’s Club Tropicana video. With a touch of the M83’s about them, some 80’s guitar licks, a pretty melody and one of the softest male vocals we’ve heard since Green Gartside sung about The Word Girl in the 80’s this song makes us want to run along the beach in red speedos with Pamela Anderson. Now there’s a strange image to keep with you for the rest of the day. Dive in, let go and enjoy.

Dive In - Let Go