According to a post on the band's website, Xiu Xiu multi-instrumentalist Caralee McElroy has left the group. Here's what she wrote, in a post titled "Thanks for the memories":

"I have decided to stop playing in Xiu Xiu for personal reasons. Thank you to everyone who has supported me in the last 5 years. Xiu Xiu is an important and amazing band and will continue to be."

Meanwhile, Xiu Xiu frontman (and McElroy's cousin) Jamie Stewart has a new band called Former Ghosts and he's on a solo tour in Europe right now. And next year, Xiu Xiu plans to release an album called Dear God, I Hate Myself.