...Some News...

Preface: This is news we’re sharing with you and ONLY you. This is not public information yet. Please respect the gravity of this announcement before you choose to share it. We’d appreciate the opportunity to tell the rest of the world in our own time and in our own way. Thank you most kindly. 

This is not going be an easy post to read just as it isn’t an easy post to write. We’ve been struggling with how to present this news to all of you and after much discussion, we’ve decided there’s nothing for it but to rip off the band-aid and give this wound some air and time to heal. So here it is, deep breath. 

Our friend and fellow harmony junkie of forever, Earl, will no longer be performing with VoicePlay.  

As sure as this news is stinging you, be certain that the cut it’s left in us feels bottomless. This is a man who we’ve shared the stage with for decades of our lives and has been a big part of the beating heart of VoicePlay for as long as we’ve been making music together. Through good and bad, Earl was always there, ready with a joke, or to offer a citrus flavored diet beverage, or if you just needed someone to yell at, because dammit, you had a rough day, he was there for you. He was down for the struggle, and we’ll miss him being with us in ways we can’t even imagine yet or begin to express.  Like all storied relationships this one comes with a heart-breaking twist and it wasn’t meant to last. Though we all tried to bend the arc of circumstance in a different direction, ultimately, we’ve decided to part ways.  

We’re sure that you have innumerable questions that you’d like to ask us and we’re happy to answer anything that we’re able. We’ll be hosting a live chat soon for you, our patreon community, so please stand by for details on that. Until then, we’d ask that you support Earl in all of his future endeavors and respect his privacy if that is what he’s looking for at this time.  

It is the end of an age, but it is by no means the end of VoicePlay and during this time of transition, we’ve put together a brand new video for you that we’re ready to release in the coming days. Like so many other instances, we believe the music will say everything that our failing words can’t.  

While we’ll feel the absence of Earl forever and be nostalgic for times gone by, we’re looking forward with optimism to meeting the new high harmony singer in VoicePlay. We hope that they have a wondrous beard, and can bench press a refrigerator, just like our former brother-in-arms.  

So, here’s to Earl. Everyone, crack yourself open a Diet Mountain Dew and raise it high in honor of our buddy who is moving on from VoicePlay in pursuit of his happiness in other places. We wish him only the best. We hope you’ll do the same. 

Yours in harmony, 

Layne, Geoff, Eli, & J