As reported earlier by our big sister paper to the north, experimental noise duo Yellow Swans are going tits (feathers?) up in the coming months. The band posted news of their demise on their MySpace blog:

Just wanted to drop on here that the rumors and random blog posts about YS breaking up are true.

we are completing all of our previous comittments, including all of the shows on our calender here.. so.. those are all on…

there’s been no drama in the band or anything weird.. just time for two dudes to move on..

we are working on a few last releases so… hopefully there will at least be a studio album released in 2009, and there are a few other comittments that we will be completing after the band is over..

The band has ten shows coming up—from Backspace to Barcelona, Spain—but after that, I assume they’ll hang it up for good.

I suppose now is as good a time as any to look back on our relationship with the band. Every person who sits in this chair in different. Julianne Shepherd, Zac Pennington, Adam Gnade, Olive the Pug (a short-lived experiment, it didn’t work…), and myself are all very different music editors with varied taste in music. While I’ve always been pretty indifferent to the Yellow Swans—it’s just not my scene—this paper has had many, many, many, many positive things to say about the duo, and one negative thing as well.

But regardless of all that, the band’s influence feels like it has yet to properly settle, and—as horrible as it is to say—a breakup just might be what is needed to remedy that. Posthumously the Yellow Swans might be seen in a different light, one where their forward-thinking, if not utterly abrasive, take on music and art will be appreciated on a greater level.

I guess we’ll find out soon enough.