 Originally a five-piece, one of the founding members, Tom Baker, left the band in 2006, before the release of the band's second album "The Death of Nightlife", though still contributed to the recording which had mostly been completed before his departure.The band announced they had split up on 26 May 2008 on their Myspace blog.Their reasoning behind the breakup, as quoted from their MySpace blog was ""There are a lot of things that the four of us need to do personally that being in the band does not allow.