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The Walkmen in state of “extreme hiatus”
By Aly Barchi | Published on Monday 2 December 2013
The Walkmen’s bassist, one Peter Bauer, has revealed that the band are on a “pretty extreme hiatus”, and have “no future plans whatsoever”.
Which in real terms only means they won’t be releasing any new LPs for a while, maybe even years, but will return one day. That’s what I hope is the case, anyway.
Talking with a admittedly palpable air of finality to the Washington Post – worse, in an article titled ‘This could be the last time’ – Bauer has said: “We really just have no idea. I don’t think any of us wanted to write another Walkmen record. Maybe that will change down the line, maybe it won’t, maybe we’ll play shows. I think it’s weird to make a hubbub about something if there’s nothing to really make a hubbub about. At the same time, I don’t think we’ve been a gang properly for a long time, so there’s not much to break up, I guess”.
“It’s been almost fourteen years now”, he adds. “I think that’s enough, you know?”
Oh dear. Both Bauer and The Walkmen’s lead singer, Hamilton Leithauser, have solo LPs in the offing, so that’s some consolation for fans, at least.
