Photo by Tonje Thilesen

Alex Zhang Hungtai has announced the end of his Dirty Beaches project. In a series of Tweets, he explained that he plans to keep making music, but under a different name:

Zhang will release his final album as Dirty Beaches, the instrumental collection Stateless, on November 4. You can listen to it here, via Pitchfork Advance. A statement he wrote about the album included the line "Nothing is forever."

Read our interview with Zhang from last year.

Watch Dirty Beaches perform "A Hundred Highways" at Pitchfork Music Festival: