During a performance in October 2017, Lacey further confirmed the band’s end, stating “We’re gonna be a band for about 14 more months, so thank you so much for being here tonight.”
On September 13, 2017, Kevin Devine announced via Facebook that he would be taking time off of his own project, Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band, to join Brand New on their Science Fiction tour as an additional guitarist and vocalist.
Two days later on August 17, many people who had pre-ordered the vinyl edition of the album received a CD (limited to 500) in the post that contained an album in its entirety, named Science Fiction , compressed into one 61-minute long track.
On August 15, 2017, the band announced on Instagram that their fifth LP would be released on vinyl in October 2017.
On September 26, 2016, the band revealed that the latest album that had previously been promised to fans would not be released in 2016. The band felt that the songs on the album were incomplete and needed more time to be deemed finalized. The band also announced that it would…
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In September 2016, when Brand New announced that their fifth studio album would not be released that year as originally scheduled, the band issued more statements alluding to the band’s end: “What’s left should be a strange demise, but hopefully one as loud and as fun as the rest of…
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On July 22, 2016, the band released a physical 7″ single of “Mene” with the b-side “Out of Range,” a previously unreleased song that had been leaked in 2010.
On July 13, 2016, the band released an EP called 3 Demos, Reworked . The EP contains re-recorded versions of 3 songs that appear on Leaked Demos 2006 .
On June 28 in Salt Lake City, Lacey said between songs, “We’re done. Oh yeah, we’re done, and it makes nights like this all the more special so thanks for being here.”
During their summer 2016 tour, the band released new shirt designs which read “2000–2018”. One of them was projected onto the stage after the band’s set at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver on June 2, increasing speculation that Brand New planned to break up in 2018.