Brand New Delay Album and Confirm Disbandment

Long Island alternative rock band Brand New has pushed back the release of their as-yet unnamed fifth studio album and confirmed that they will be disbanding afterwards, writing on Twitter:

“At some point previous, we, Brand New, admitted our plans to release a record this year. These plans were authentic, but we are changing them. While there exists a collection of songs that, right now, some would call fit to be an album, to us it is not complete enough, refined enough, or edited thoroughly enough to be something we could call finished or essential. Brand New will not release a record in 2016.

What’s left should be a strange demise, but hopefully one as loud and as fun as the rest of our time together has been. All are invited. Please send flowers.”

Rumors of Brand New’s break up were sparked when frontman Jesse Lacey cryptically told an audience that “this won’t last much longer” at the end of a 2015 concert in Nashville, Tennessee. On their recent co-headlining run with Modest Mouse, the band inscribed merchandise and set pieces with “Brand New: 2000-2018,” causing further speculation that their demise was imminent.

Brand New has also announced that, on their upcoming trek with Modern Baseball and The Front Bottoms, they will play their critically-acclaimed album, The Devil and God are Raging Inside of Me, in its entirety.

Brand New with The Front Bottoms and Modern Baseball:

October 13th @ Main Street Armory in Rochester, NY
October 14th @ Glen Falls Civic Center in Glen Falls, NY
October 15th @ Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, ME
October 17th @ Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, CT
October 18th @ Ithaca College Athletic & Events Center in Ithaca, NY
October 20th @ Wolstein Center in Cleveland, OH
October 21st @ DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids, MI
October 22nd @ Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, WI
October 23rd @ Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, MN
October 25th @ The District in Sioux Falls, SD
October 27th @ Adams Center in Missoula, MT
October 28th @ Revolution Event Center in Garden City, ID
October 29th @ Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, NV
October 31st @ Event Center at San Jose State University in San Jose, CA
November 1st @ Chelsea Theater in Las Vegas, NV
November 3rd @ El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, TX
November 5th @ Concrete Street in Corpus Christi, TX
November 7th @ Alabama Theatre in Birmingham, AL
November 8th @ Bon Secours Arena in Greenville, SC
November 10th @ Eagle Bank Arena in Fairfax, VA
November 11th @ PPL Center in Allentown, PA
November 12th @ Bryce Jordan Center in University Park, PA

Written by Eugene