Long time Lobster Records band PARK has decided to call it a day. The band’s frontman and mastermind, Ladd Mitchell, posted the following entry regarding the break-up at the band’s MySpace:

“During the course of the past few months my priorities concerning Park, have changed due to personal affairs in my life. These changes have lead me to ultimately quit the band. It is a decision that I have been pining over for quite some time now, as I did not want to make a rash choice. For the past ten years being in Park is all I have known, and leaving that is scary, yet I wouldn’t trade that time for anything else in the world. The friends we have made, places we’ve been, floors we’ve slept on, and shows we have played are unimaginable. It is much more than I ever thought we would accomplish.

We will be playing a final show to support our fans sometime before June. This show will be posted as soon as we know the date and will be held in our home town of springfield, IL. If anyone wishes to leave comments or has any other questions concerning the finer details of the breakup would you please please please send them to my personal myspace account and I would be more than happy to talk with you about them.”

For the entire post, head to their MySpace blog.

PARK released three albums throughout their career: No Signal, It Won’t Snow Where You’re Going, and last year’s Building A Better ____. In addition, it appears as though the band will release a posthumous DVD, and they are asking fans that have anything that symbolizes PARK (pics, video, tatoos, etc) to please send an e-mail to Milesenate@aol.com.

- Not entirely unexpected, but definitely a terrible loss as far as honest, hard-working bands go. Good luck to the PARK guys in the future.

-At least they went out on a high note (2006′s Building A Better _____), though I can’t help but feel that the band was getting better and better with every record. Guess I’ll be playing some of their songs tonight…

James