On Monday, the wildly-popular indie band Yuck announced they are no longer a band. The announcement was delivered via Twitter.
“I feel its only right to tell you that we will no longer be touring or making new music together,” the Tweet says. “We’ve released 3 albums together and I’m so proud of everything we’ve achieved, but we all felt it was important to know when to draw the line. It wasn’t an easy thing to come to terms with.”
The breakup came on the 10th anniversary of the release of the band’s 2011 breakthrough self-titled debut album. That amazing album will go down in indie history as one of the best indie debuts ever.
Unfortunately, frontman Daniel Blumberg departed the band in 2013 for other pursuits. The rest of the band continued and grinded it out, releasing the impressive follow-up Glow & Behold that same year and one final album, Stranger Things, in 2016.
“I want to thank everyone for their overwhelming support over the years, everyone who came to shows, bought our record, bought our merch, Fat Possum for believing in us and signing a band they had never met or seen live, and our booking agents, press and management for working so hard for us.
When they first hit the scene – so to speak – a decade ago, the U.K. indie band Yuck blew up as few newcomers do.
But they had a special something about their sound, lyrics, and presence that resonated with indie enthusiasts. We were early fans like many and luckily got to see the band live.
Fast-forward 10 years later, during the age of the pandemic and political upheaval, and x-number of albums purchased; sold-out shows; non-stop touring; interviews and followers, Yuck has no longer exists.
Yuckily, for all of us, we still have the tapes.
Yuck is one of the few bands from the ‘post-indie’ era that helped keep the genre fresh and in the spotlight. We wish them all the best and looking forward to the band members’ new projects.
