Strange Ranger ca. 2019. Photo by Melissa Brain.
Indie rock stalwarts Strange Ranger have broken up, the band announced on Instagram this morning (October 30). “Pure Music will be the last Strange Ranger album,” the group wrote, referring to the third studio LP recorded under their current moniker, released in July. “Thank you so much for listening to the music and coming out to shows for all these years — it means the world. See u on the other side.”
Strange Ranger began as Sioux Falls — the duo of Isaac Eiger and Fred Nixon, who grew up together in Bozeman, Montana. They’d relocated to Portland and added drummer Ben Scott by 2016, when they released their first and only LP under that name. In 2017, they added vocalist/synth player Fiona Woodman, another Pacific Northwest pickup, and moved again to Philadelphia as Strange Ranger before finding their final home in New York.
Read the band’s farewell post above and listen to their final album below.
