Brissy Math-pop Heroes Seahorse Divorce Are Putting Out A New Album & Breaking Up

20 July 2016 | 3:14 pm | Staff Writer

Get thee to the Woolly Mammoth next month to say hello and farewell

Brisbane-bred indie-jazz-rock/math-pop luminaries Seahorse Divorce have made the bittersweet announcement that they will release their eagerly awaited sophomore full-length album, Now, next month — and promptly break up afterwards.

Breaking the news on social media this week, the band explained that they would be going out with a bang via one final show at the Woolly Mammoth on Thursday 4 August.

"After four years of intermittent activity, a few releases, about 60 shows and an increasingly ambivalent outlook, Seahorse Divorce have decided to call it a day," the band wrote in their description for the gig. "In typical fashion, we've pooled our last remaining energy and resources into a swan song LP called 'NOW'.

"Our music has always struggled against increasing social depersonalisation, creative genericity and the dreaded flip side of all that — over-earnestness. Maintaining and processing that balance of elements has become a bit exhausting in the format and mixture of personalities which make up the band, so with somewhat heavy hearts we move on to other things."

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After coming together in 2012, Seahorse Divorce released their self-titled debut album in June 2013, with additional releases following in the form of 2014's Hessian Transgression/Horses For Discourses 7" and last year's phenomenal Public Transport Fantasy Sequence EP.

The band's Now launch and final show — which is only, like, the second time Seahorse Divorce has played in the past year because the world is a cruel and terrible place — will be supported by Big Dead and Raw Sugar.

If you're feeling gutted, take heart; at least Seahorse Divorce's discography lives on at Bandcamp