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Given that they were jettisoned from the good ship EMI last summer and only managed to sell around seven records over their four years together, it probably shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to learn that Captain have thrown in the towel. Well, not exactly - the five former band members are still working together under new moniker 'More Diamonds' - though how anyone with 2006's glittering This is Hazelville under their belt could think this is a good idea is beyond me.

Captain are by no means the first, last or most talented group to fall victim to the machinations of the music industry, but their untimely demise is still a goddamned shame. Unreleased second album Distraction may not quite match the quality of their first, but the number of hits I get every month via google searches for "Captain Distraction rapidshare megaupload torrent leakplzdammitalltohellll" is proof that there's still plenty of interest out there, and perhaps the members of More Diamonds should think about capitalising on that instead of whatever it is they think they're doing at the moment.

Oh Captain. We had some good times.