Maribou State announce hiatus “to reset physically and mentally”

Maribou State have announced a hiatus, saying that they want to take some time out “to reset physically and mentally”.

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The move comes as the band took a temporary break in 2024, and will now see them have a longer hiatus before deciding what comes next.

They will still play their scheduled shows this summer, including a stop at Forwards Festival in Bristol on Saturday (August 29) and at London’s LIDO Festival on Bank Holiday Monday (August 31).

They shared the update about their future in a new interview with MixMag, where they reflected on the recent release of a deluxe edition of ‘Hallucinating Love’, and also shed light on how they overcame health worries and writer’s block to finish that album.

Discussing how it was around the time they were working on ‘Hallucinating Love’ that they considered taking a break, they shared that it was “brutal timing” to finish their 2019 tour and go “straight into lockdown”.

He continued: “Chris [Davids] was dealing with his own version of it, although physically as well as mentally, and for a long stretch we were both struggling but in completely different ways.

It wasn’t easy to write music from that place and sessions often felt like wading through mud.”.

As for how they want fans to see their LIDO show – their last gig before the hiatus – they told the outlet: “We want it to feel less like an ending and more like a marker, a chance to give this album and this whole period the send-off it deserves before we properly step back.”.

When it dropped last year, NME gave their third album, ‘Hallucinating Love’, a four star review, which read: “Already certified masters of their craft, ‘Hallucinating Love’ cherry-picks fresh blooms and euphoric alt-pop melodies to enhance what we already know and love about Maribou State.”.

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