It seems that iForward, Russia! will for the moment get to be renamed Retreat, Retreat, Retreat! The Leeds band have announced "a break ... for the foreseeable future," and blamed their lack of success ... on themselves.
Although the band's other October dates will no thirster take piazza, they stay committed to a net gig at the Brainwash festival in Leeds on October 17.
"We get decided to take a break from doing iForward, Russia! - for a lot of different reasons," the band announced on their web site. "The approximation of doing another tour with nada new to offer was something that enthused none of us, and the idea of rebooting on a productive strand is something we're not quite ready to face barely yet."
"The last few months of inactivity has led us all on paths off from the band. I know that sounds left over, having released an record album only a few months ago, only I don't think whatever of us were connected to the mechanics of its press release. I don't know how it happened, but I want to thank all our direction, the guys and gals at Cooking Vinyl and all the other people who worked on the record for putting all their efforts into the release of Life Processes and apologize for our complete failure to employ in the release of it."
iForward, Russia!'s second base album, Life Processes, was released in April.
Adding to the band's crisis is its geographic drift. Drummer Katie Nicholls is moving to Nottingham to study art, and frontman Tom Woodhead has been working as a producer with the Leicester band Minnaars, the statement said.
Though iForward, Russia! may release a previously announced remix EP, it will not be in physical form. They are, however, looking to collect unrecorded bootlegs, session tracks and rarities for release on their website.
"Till later then," the band wrote, "take forethought."
They effectual a caboodle like Napoleon after a long Russian winter.
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