Long-running orchestral-rock crew Murder By Death are calling it quits. Two years after releasing 2023's As We Wish, the Bloomington, Indiana band, who have been together since 2000, have announced a farewell tour with supporting slots from Laura Jane Grace, William Elliott Whitmore, AJJ, Shawn James, and BJ Bahram, and forthcoming details on a final album. "This band has always been a jumble of contradictions," guitarist Adam Turla says in a bracingly honest statement. "On the one hand, we've had a long-running career where we got to make art for a living. But on the other, we have always eluded any kind of traditional success."
Turla's statement continues: