Dirty Beaches Calls It Quits

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Photo by Tonje Thilesen

Alex Zhang Hungtai has announced the end of his Dirty Beaches project. In a series of Tweets, he explained that he plans to keep making music, but under a different name:

Hi guys thank you all for the support of STATELESS, its sad to say goodbye to DB, but rest assured NEW PROJECTS NEW MUSIC COMING SOON 2015

— Last Lizard (@dirtybeaches808) October 28, 2014

this may not be a smart move & painful1 too, but in the long run I'll look back& be glad I moved on from Dirty Beaches. Thank you all x

— Last Lizard (@dirtybeaches808) October 28, 2014

RIP DIRTY BEACHES 2005-2014.

— Last Lizard (@dirtybeaches808) October 28, 2014

Time to move on.

— Last Lizard (@dirtybeaches808) October 28, 2014

Hungtai will release his final album as Dirty Beaches, the instrumental collection Stateless, on November 4. You can listen to it here, via Pitchfork Advance. A statement he wrote about the album included the line "Nothing is forever."

Read our interview with Hungtai from last year.

Watch Dirty Beaches perform "A Hundred Highways" at Pitchfork Music Festival:

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