in march 2011, walker announced an amicable departure from the band and has gone on to play with sister cities, being cool is lonely and the holy coast. olney plays with a new band, cat meat. walker has continued to perform as power of dreams and to work on new material alongside his new project, mineral, based in paris. in 2014, the avener had a chart-topping hit single in several european countries with "fade out lines", a remix of a song written by walker and phoebe killdeer (ex-nouvelle vague) for phoebe killdeer and the short straws' second album "innerquake", released in 2012.