DIIV on How Heroin, Sky Ferreira Influenced New LP

On their 2012 debut full-length, Oshin, DIIV’s densely textured approach — swirling, feedback-drenched maelstroms of guitar noise; a steady, almost motorik rhythmic pulse; breathy vocals shrouded in a haze of murk — led to the Brooklyn-based band being tagged with signifiers like dream pop and shoegaze. But while frontman Zachary Cole Smith…