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Desaparecidos Drop Out of Plea for Peace Tour, Postpone Album
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[Posted Tuesday, January 13th, 2004 01:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Brian "Newsmonger" Howe reports:
Desaparecidos, the political rock band including Conor "Bright Eyes" Oberst and Denver "Statistics" Dalley, has dropped out of Mike "Asian Man Records" Park's Plea for Peace Tour and postponed the recording of their sophomore album, which was set to materialize in spring of 2004. When Oberst, Dalley, and Park realized they had each inadvertently titled their respective enterprises after their middle names, they were apparently too creeped out by the eerie cosmic confluence to continue working together in any fashion until they consulted their oracles and scrying pools for advice.

According to a Saddle Creek press release, the indefinite postponement of the album and Desaparecidos'desertion of the Plea for Peace tour are the results of nothing more exotic than scheduling conflicts. A Saddle Creek rep tells Pitchfork there's nothing more juicy or sinister behind the conciliatory press release: "I don't think it was any one thing that led to [the cancellation]... just a matter of the four people in the band trying to juggle their other projects, and when it came down to it, they couldn't fit it all in."

This isn't the first time Desaparecidos has backed out of a tour under mysterious circumstances-- when they were on the road to support their debut album Read Music, Speak Spanish, they cancelled halfway through when they "lost" their bass player, Landon Hedges (as is often the case, they later found him between the cushions of a bandmate's couch, but by this time he had already been replaced by Casey Scott). If they ever do actually make it out on a full tour, be prepared for peculiarity. I happened to catch their set in Carrboro a couple years ago, and at one point, I went to the bathroom. When I returned, the band had all removed their shirts, and on stage, people were kissing one another. I'll never know what transpired in the minute-and-a-half I was gone, but I haven't been quite right since.

Saddle Creek: http://www.saddle-creek.com
Plea for Peace: http://www.pleaforpeace.com
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