Stroll the Moon, the alt-rockers behind the hit track “Shut Up and Dance,” have introduced that they’re happening indefinite hiatus.
On Friday (July 14), the Stroll the Moon frontman Nicholas Petricca broke the information to followers in an emotional 11-minute video.
“The time has come for us to take a very good lengthy break from touring and making information collectively,” the keyboardist/singer stated within the opening of the clip, which was posted on the Cincinnati-based band’s official YouTube channel. “Once we do reconvene, that will probably be an excellent day. The reality is, we don’t know when that’s going to be.”
Petricca famous that he and Stroll the Moon bandmates, guitarist Eli Maiman and drummer Sean Waugaman, are “stuffed with love, gratitude, appreciation and a few heartache” because the group goes into hibernation.
“It is a gigantic act of affection to rigorously elevate one thing like this from the middle of our lives and place it gently to the facet, out of focus, and let it relaxation for a second,” Petricca stated. “It’s a selection we made powerfully to observe our reality, to create space for brand spanking new creations, for household, to serve our well-being and, in the long term, even serve the well-being of Stroll the Moon, like hibernation, to hopefully come again sooner or later stronger than earlier than.”
Within the video, Petricca revealed that Stroll the Moon’s ultimate live performance (scheduled for Aug. 12) will probably be livestreamed and that the band plans to launch new music. The frontman additionally teased that he’s engaged on a “solo mission universe” and that Maiman has “a brand new musical collaboration” on the way in which.
Stroll the Moon’s self-titled debut peaked at No. 36 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 2012. Two years later, the rock act dropped their breakout hit “Shut Up and Dance,” which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart. The group’s most up-to-date album, Heights, arrived in 2021.
Watch Stroll the Moon’s hiatus announcement under.
