Augie March Return After Five-Year Hiatus

Victorian indie-pop luminaries Augie March have revealed that they are bringing to a close the indefinite hiatus they undertook in 2009, returning to our lives with the announcement of their fifth studio full-length, to be released later this year.

Forming in 1997 and taking the slow road to national renown, the band's first two albums, Sunset Studies and Strange Bird, were both critically acclaimed pieces of work, though did not help the group find commercial traction. That wouldn't come until 2006, courtesy of their Platinum-selling third LP Moo, You Bloody Choir, which featured the triple j Hottest 100-winning cut One Crowded Hour.

Fourth album Watch Me Disappear became a little too prescient in its naming for comfort, with the members going their separate ways in 2009 – but, with the members having undertaken solo projects – such as frontman Glenn Richards' Glimjack (2010) – and other pursuits over the past five years, they now feel it's time to get the band back together.

We could wax lyrical about the potential for greatness this reunion could bring to our ears and stages given the band's accepted status as one of the nation's lyrically and instrumentally superior concerns on the commercially viable indie spectrum, but, in typically understated style, Augie March are only making one promise right now, and that's that they're alive and kicking once more.