With their latest album Heaven being released last year and with frontman Hamilton Leithauser working on a new solo LP, The Walkmen look set to take a break after over 13 years.
Speaking to the Washington Post recently, the band’s bassist and organist Peter Bauer said: “We have no future plans whatsoever. I’d call it a pretty extreme hiatus.”
He added: “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. ”
Bauer goes on say that the reasoning is just something natural after all the time spent together as a band: “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.”
But it appears the members won’t be resting on the laurels though, as it’s been confirmed that along with Leithauser’s solo project, Bauer and fellow bandmate Walter Martin will also be prepping lone efforts.
Heaven, released in June 2012, was the band’s seventh studio release.
[via The 405]
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