Ex-pat surf-noise act Snowman pretty much break up, but will still release their third album.
The Perth band relocated to London in 2008 following the release of their disturbing second album The Horse, The Rat And The Swan.
Mess And Noise report that guitarist and vocalist Joe McKee has admitted that the band have pretty much called it quits.
McKee told an online magazine called lifeisnoise.com that the band’s drummer Ross DiBlaso and bassist Olga Hermanuisson have moved to Iceland and are planning for a child, leaving McKee and guitarist, vocalist and violinist Andy Citawarman without half of their band.
McKee said that DiBlaso and Hermanuisson are “focusing on that so were not really a band anymore”.
Snowman have already recorded their third album, titled ∆bsence, which will still get a release through the Dot Dash label via Remote Control.
McKee said of the album: “It’s something that we’ve been working on for the last three years and it’s our best record without a fucking doubt, in my opinion. I’m really proud of it. But we just can’t push it uphill with a pointy stick anymore, we all need new people to work with and we all need to feel the spark again and I think that for some of us that spark was dampened.”
Mess And Noise confirmed that McKee is working on a solo album.
