[jakitula]

Aww. This article has a lot of the same info and quotes, but ends a little more on a hopeful note.

It seems, considering the aforementioned plans, that a hiatus may be in store for Hansard and Irglova as a musical duo, but things haven't run their course just yet.

"The Swell Season will continue to do things. I just don't know whether it's ... I don't know in what context we'll do it," Hansard says. "The thing that this band has proven to me is that when you're political, it doesn't work. When you're careerist about it, it doesn't [work]. It just shines less." This makes me a little bummed that I missed their Brooklyn show last month, probably their last NYC show ever. (I was very ill and couldn't make it.)

But I have tickets for The Frames in November, and I have to admit that I loved them first and I'm happy that they're back and touring. I love Mar, too, and I'll follow her no matter what she does.

ETA: Glen's latest tweet:

If anyone is going to announce the end of The Swell Season it'll be us.. Forget what anyone else says.. Were not breaking up.. http://twitter.com/Glen_Hansard/status/22021382248