The Gaslight Anthem have announced their indefinite hiatus. Once the New Jersey quartet’s current European tour is over, they will take a break from the band to embark on new projects.
In a post on Facebook, Brian Fallon, Alex Rosamilia, Alex Levine and Benny Horowitz released the following statement:
We’re all going to do other projects and stay active in some way or another, both in and out of music, but we’d like to step away from the band until we decide what we’d like to do next.
We’d like to recharge and take a step back until we have something we feel excited about rather than going right back to making a record just for the sake of making the next record. We all feel this is the best decision we can make and it feels like the right one for us.
The group, who received lukewarm reviews for their fifth album Get Hurt, formed in 2006, and spawned from the New Jersey punk scene.
In the past few years, members of the band have worked on individual side projects – Fallon, the group’s frontman, is a member of the The Horrible Crowes as well as the Molly and the Zombies, while lead guitarist Rosamilia is also in metal band Servitude.
The Gaslight Anthem’s August dates end with a slot at Reading and Leeds festival.
