Sinai Vessel, the Nashville-based indie-rock band fronted by Caleb Cordes, has disbanded. Cordes announced the breakup on X. Read his note in detail below.
“Somewhere along the way, Sinai Vessel became a means for me to dress for the job I wanted,” Cordes wrote in part. “I never got that job. I saw friends and peers receive the call. I put my nose to the grindstone. I worked my ass off, enjoyed some real wins. And I spent a lot of time wondering what was wrong with me or the things I made… As a loved one put it, it's crazy to be disappointed in myself for not winning the lottery.”
Cordes formed Sinai Vessel in 2011, at the age of 16, in his hometown of Hickory, North Carolina. Largely a solo project, the band released four studio albums of emo and indie-folk music over the years, beginning in 2011 album/labor-pains-2/” class=”external-link” data-event-click=”{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"https://sinaivessel.bandcamp.com/album/labor-pains-2/"}” href=”https://sinaivessel.bandcamp.com/album/labor-pains-2/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>Labor pains until 2017 Broken legs and 2020 Ground Aswim. Sinai Vessel's latest album, album/i-sing/” class=”external-link” data-event-click=”{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"https://sinaivessel.bandcamp.com/album/i-sing/"}” href=”https://sinaivessel.bandcamp.com/album/i-sing/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>I singreleased last July.
Sinai boat:
15 years is longer than I know how to talk about. It contains my entire adult life and almost half of my life besides. Good grief.
My time outside and inside the Sinai Vessel can be dissected, but they are two strands of a rope. And the Sinai ark leg is a series of events that are always connected—if not directly responsible—for every relationship and memory I hold dear. To say that I am grateful for this is to say that I am grateful to have lived at all.
And I'm grateful. But it wasn't easy. Somewhere along the way, Sinai Vessel became a means to dress for the job I wanted. I never got that job. I saw friends and peers receive the call. I put my nose to the grindstone. I worked my ass off, enjoyed some real wins. And I spent a lot of time wondering what I was good at or the things I made. My math was wrong, I know. As a loved one put it, it's crazy to be disappointed in myself for not winning the lottery.
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