LA emo quartet glass beach have announced their dissolution amid the release of frontwoman J McClendon's new album under the alias "you are an angel." The band, best known for their internet-buzzed debut the first glass beach album, made the following statement on their website:

"since coming back from our tour in 2024 we have been on and off trying to make a third album and/or another tour happen. we have decided after lots of back and forth that we no longer feel capable of making music together that we’re proud of nor can we tour in a way that works for all of us. we value our art enough not to compromise quality or our relationships with each other for the sake of continuing our career. because of this, we have decided to end glass beach.

we are all still friends, and in fact will find it much easier to be friends without this career coming between us. we harbor no ill will towards our label run for cover, who have been endlessly supportive, nor to anyone else we have been working with professionally.

we all intend to continue to make art and music, though not together as glass beach. j put out her debut under the new alias 'you are an angel' and is already gearing up to tour that album and begin recording the next one, while finding time for other collaborative work and non-music projects as well.

Jonas is streaming music on twitch, working as a commission artist, and is releasing a set of acoustic demos tomorrow for a solo album they're working on.

Layne is streaming on Twitch, Youtube, and TikTok. Along with gaming challenge runs, he's put out a couple videos on YT and is working on new music, visual art, and planning out commission guidelines. You can find links to all of this on his Twitch page, along with a community Discord for updates & a Patreon link for overall support.

William has shifted mostly into community organizing, disability justice/mask distro/clean air advocacy. She's still writing music and may or may not record it at some point, but will be playing shows with high quality mask requirements in the greater Seattle area from time to time.

more than anything, we want to thank our fans for helping us take this project as far as we have. none of us had ever gotten this much love and appreciation for something we’ve made before glass beach. our rise truly was about as grassroots as can be, led by word of mouth, reviews, and fan works, and we are absolutely grateful for all of that. if you came to shows, bought merch, told your friends about us, supported us on patreon, played our songs in rhythm games, if you even just listened to our music at all, thank you, you are the reason we were able to do all this and the reason why we kept doing it as long as we did.

-glass beach"

More info on the group's disbandment and McClendon's new project can be found in Ian Cohen's interview with McClendon here. Listen to you are an angel's it's fine to dream below.