Altered Zones

There is something concise about newly formed projects that are pieced together from other bands: they know what they want from their sound. To that effect, Brooklyn's Dive is made up of Beach Fossils guitarist Cole Smith, Devin Ruben Perez, Andrew Bailey, and ex-Smith Westerns drummer Colby Hewitt. Influences could canvas an entire avant-garde/post-punk section at your neighborhood record store, but I'll try to break it down. The band mentions Can to account for their steadfast beat, though I'm sure Faust would have something to say about this as well, ringing guitar tones included. Visually the band tracked this up to Harry Everett Smith's Early Abstractions, a seemingly natural combination. --Ryan Ellis, Weekly Tape Deck

MP3: Dive: "Sometime"

Dive is set to release two seven-inches on Captured Tracks on Oct. 11th and November 29th, with an EP coming this December