Thanks to reader Joshua, who pointed out some news from Deerhunter’s blog this morning, in a post titled “Goodbye 21st Century,” announcing a band hiatus. Before you read the entry, please pause a moment and remember the band in better times. It’s hard not getting a lump in your throat.
[Photo via Impose]
Now, a word from Mr. Cox:
So we have one show left tomorrow night in Leipzig, Germany. Then we drive through the night to Prague where we fly home from early in the morning. This tour has been really insane. We met a lot of amazing people and finally got to play the UK, making our debut at the forum even. We are totally grateful for the opportunity to play everywhere we did. When we started this band years ago we never imagined playing outside of Atlanta, so this has all been like a hallucination. We are all exhausted now and ready to be home. I would like to announce that the show we are playing at Primavera in Barcelona (I hope to god i spelled that right) will be our last for quite some time. It will also be the last time we are ever playing the Cryptograms set we have been playing for the last two years. After that the band are going on hiatus. We all need some time to organize our lives. Thanks to everyone who has helped us out. This has been a crazy year that I will always remember.Love,
BradfordP.S. we will still post stuff on here but probably not just as regularly and you can pretty much rest assured it will be solo stuff and not deerhunter, so if you are one of those people who are like, “why doesn’t bradford start his own blog”, delete your bookmark. deerhunter is sleeping now.
Yup, you spelled Primavera correctly, Bradford. That festival takes place 12/3-12/8 … so on the morning of 12/9, we’ll wake up to a post-Deerhunter world (for the time being). The Atlas Sound’s excellently disembodied Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel drops 2/19, Cox fanatics, so you won’t have to wait too long for more actions. In the meantime, check out “Calvary Scars” (at the Bowery and as part of a Daytrotter session) or a few party tips to perk you up.
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weren’t they supposed to play pitchfork atp in may? did they cancel?
I’ll miss the batshit crazy photographs that came with this band.
i’ll miss…absolutely nothing about this band i guess…hmm.
So are the poor little pussies gonna go get real jobs now?
“Waaaaaaa. Touring is hard. playing music is stressful.”
Try not taking yourselves so seriously and you might be able to deal with things better.
This is wonderful news.
whatever
Exciting band, I look forward to their return. Could do with a bit less internet shit being spewed over them, but that’s not entirely their fault. Why are the blogs etc treating this like a split? They’re talking about a few months off, not a few years.
Thank god.
this band was important for all of ten minutes, piled on the drama at every turn, including this all important hiatus statement. no thanks. don’t bother coming back please. seems like someone stumbled over his own press clippings while he was trolling the internet for twink porn.