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

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."

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.