Photo by Tonje Thilesen

Alex Zhang Hungtai has announced the end of his Dirty Beaches project. In a series of Tweets, he explained that he plans to keep making music, but under a different name:

Hi guys thank you all for the support of STATELESS, its sad to say goodbye to DB, but rest assured NEW PROJECTS NEW MUSIC COMING SOON 2015

this may not be a smart move & painful1 too, but in the long run I'll look back& be glad I moved on from Dirty Beaches. Thank you all x

RIP DIRTY BEACHES 2005-2014.

Time to move on.

Hungtai will release his final album as Dirty Beaches, the instrumental collectionStateless, on November 4. You can listen to it here, via Pitchfork Advance. A statement he wrote about the album included the line "Nothing is forever."

Read our interview with Hungtai from last year.

Watch Dirty Beaches perform "A Hundred Highways" at Pitchfork Music Festival:

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Dirty Beaches Calls It Quits