Noooo!

The Cincinnati CityBeat interviewed Nate Query, the bass player for The Decemberists:

CB: There have been other mixed reports that I have been reading that you guys may be taking a very long break. Is there any truth to that? 
NQ: We're going to be taking a long break. We don’t have an end (to the hiatus) completely settled, but we were talking like three years or something like that, which is a pretty long time. Many bands take that long to put a record out, but we are making it kind of a break where we are not planning on doing shows together or anything. We are letting everybody focus on other stuff. We usually take a break in between records, but a lot of times we end up doing a few shows here or there in the summer. We're trying to make it more of a real hiatus and let everybody go to their own little corner and do their own stuff for a little bit.