Maribou State Announce Extended Hiatus to Focus on Physical and Mental Health

Maribou State have announced they will be taking an indefinite hiatus, stating that the duo need dedicated time “to reset physically and mentally”.

This decision follows a brief temporary break in 2024, signaling a longer pause as the artists evaluate their next creative steps.

Before stepping away, the electronic duo is set to fulfill their remaining summer commitments, including performances at Bristol’s Forwards Festival on Saturday, August 29, and London’s LIDO Festival on Bank Holiday Monday, August 31.

The news was shared in a candid new interview with MixMag, where the band discussed the deluxe edition of their recent album, ‘Hallucinating Love’, and opened up about overcoming significant health hurdles and creative writer’s block to bring the project to life.

“After 18 months of touring this record, and all of the prep work that came before it, it truly feels like the right moment to pause rather than immediately thrust ourselves into another grueling cycle like we’ve done in the past,” Liam Ivory shared. “From my perspective, this record came from a place of health struggles, so it would be a bit hypocritical to finish an album about resilience and then immediately burn myself out again.”

“I want proper time to reset physically and mentally, and to build a life that isn’t entirely dictated by a touring schedule. It’s less about stepping away from music, and more about making sure whatever comes next isn’t built on the same unsustainable pace.”

Discussing how it was around the time they were working on ‘Hallucinating Love’ that they considered taking a break, they shared that it was “brutal timing” to finish their 2019 tour and go “straight into lockdown”.

“We’d been running on no sleep, not really looking after ourselves, then suddenly we were grounded with nothing to distract from it. That’s when things caught up with me personally,” Ivory shared. “My anxiety spiked hard, it turned into a constant health anxiety, and underneath it was a real lack of purpose and malaise.”

He continued: “Chris [Davids] was dealing with his own version of it, although physically as well as mentally, and for a long stretch we were both struggling but in completely different ways. It wasn’t easy to write music from that place and sessions often felt like wading through mud.”

As for how they want fans to see their LIDO show – their last gig before the hiatus – they told the outlet: “We want it to feel less like an ending and more like a marker, a chance to give this album and this whole period the send-off it deserves before we properly step back.”

“Playing a hometown headline show at the end of it all, with people who’ve been on this journey with the record, feels like the most fitting way to put it to bed,” they added.

“We’re also super excited to be playing the final show with our full orchestra and a big production. We’ve only done this max version of the show a few times before so it feels extra special to close out with the best version of the live show.”

When it dropped last year, NME gave their third album, ‘Hallucinating Love’, a four star review, which read: “Already certified masters of their craft, ‘Hallucinating Love’ cherry-picks fresh blooms and euphoric alt-pop melodies to enhance what we already know and love about Maribou State.”

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