UPDATE! The Trucks Break Up

[Editor’s note: See the official statement from the the Trucks at the bottom of this post] The Trucks have run out of gas. Seemingly out of nowhere, Bellingham’s trashed-out queens of glammy gender-tweaking dance pop have suddenly called it quits.The band, consisting of Kristin Allen-Zito, Marissa Moore, Faith Reichel and super badass drummer Lindy McIntyre, had recently been playing a number of higher-profile dates outside of Western Washington (including a six-date stint on the road with Brooklyn’s ladies of hip-hop, Northern State) where they were testing out new material that was reportedly being written for the follow-up to the band’s critically-enjoyed self-titled debut. It seems that those songs will, sadly, be placed in the dump … truck.

There has been no official word from the band, but Carly Henry of the band’s promotion company, Starbird, did include this brief statement in the email announcing the end:

I’m sad to see them part ways, but I’ve had so much fun working with them over the past 2 years–I’ve got some good memories. Not sure yet if any of them will be starting new music projects, but I believe Kristin (Allen-Zito) will be focusing on her solo material again. The songs that she has been working on are AMAZING and I am excited to see how they develop.  Hopefully she’ll record them soon and get them out to the masses.  You can keep up on her doings here–www.myspace.com/kristinallenzito

Thank you to everyone for all of your support and please come say bye at one of the shows.

The shows of which she speaks number three, and are, as follow:

Saturday, October 11th 2008
@ Chop Suey, Seattle, WA
….with A Gun That Shoots Knives (CD release) and Awesome
21+ / 9:30pm / $8
www.chopsuey.com

Friday, November 7th 2008
@ Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
…..with Northern State, The New Bloods, Lisa Papineau and Tahoe Jackson [Siren Nation Music Festival]
All ages bar w/ ID / 8pm / $15
www.wonderballroom.com

Saturday, November 8th 2008
@ The Nightlight, Bellingham, WA
…..with Sugar Sugar Sugar and one more band tba!
[no info yet on price, etc]

According to the Internet, the four members appear to be in good standing (as they are all seemingly still in each other’s Top 12). There are, though, hints that members might be growing restless, most notably via the MySpace blog belonging to Moore. Just last Saturday, the vocalist and keyboardist wrote the following in an entry titled “biography I: baby adult.”

i got all the experiences i wanted, got single, and decided to move up to a larger city and expand some more. but what i didn’t know would happen was that i would forget myself in this new world. i was back inside a shell, and it was unfamiliar. my free time was gone. my sunny bike rides and waterfront runs and places where i could be alone (and the places where i knew i could find friends) were all gone. the city is too busy for me. add on shitty fucking jobs and no friends, and accidentally dating some lechers and it was pretty god damn disappointing. my band was doing great, but to suddenly have it be all that people knew about me left me feeling a little fraudulent. i got depressed, and let my good old friendships slip away, if only out of exhaustion. (shit! please take me back.) i kept having dreams that i had forgotten my house and returning to it to find it was decrepid, only waist-high, flooded, infested, and moldy. i was sick and depressed and broke and wore out from my social work jobs and too many less-than-fulfilling relationships. all this had served to wear me down completely. through my band and my art i had vented creativity, anger, disappointment, and aggression. i had burned down to the bones, and where i always assumed there would be a sparkling treasure there was a cold vacancy. now i would have to rebuild.

While the entry does appear to be written about the past (Moore promises a second part covering the two years following the above period), it struck a chord with Reichel, who responded:

you are not alone on any of this…the anxiety, the void, the loss of self. i’m glad that you found an awesome person to be with, that you are doing ok with money, and you got your friends back. good friends never really go away. we are constantly relearning to be brave, and how to love.

Actually, that doesn’t explain anything. They just sound like good friends comforting one another. Why did they break up? We await official word.

Update! Marissa Moore writes to Sound:

“jumpin june bugs, what a shocker!  who woulda thought four shy girls who didn’t even know how to play their instruments could hop up on the stage and fuck the shit up!  we were just some self-entertained girls who wanted to play fancy trannie dress-up and have a collective cow, saw a stage vacancy and ka-bow!  in the eventful 5 years since, we learned to (pretty much) play our instruments, though some “critics” ha! may argue. we have been through a lot together, lived, loved, learned, and burned, all in a dirty little church van.  we’ve seen the good old USA, played with great bands, made a lot of good friends, and always enjoyed coming home.  but the last year has found us all living in different cities, and wandering in different directions.  change is in the air, and it feels good.  we love our band, and each other, and our fans, but it’s time to hunker down and re-invent.  into what?  you never know, but i’ll give you some hints.  marissa is building a bomb shelter full of comics and xylophones, kristin’s singin’ and cleanin’ and bustin’ her face on the disco dance floor, faitie’s gearing up for the next bout of tizzies, painting her dream animals and writing songs about armageddon, and lindy’s getting some hard-core nookie while other bands are bustin the door down to get her.  we are super excited about our last few shows, and we’ll be busy the next few months getting our newest songs out, so watch for an EP and some special see-ya surprises.  keep in touch for what happens next.  we love you!  thank you so much! love the trucks”

For more on the Trucks, go here.