Photo credit: Lindsey Byrnes
Los Angeles trio, Failure, recently announced that they will release their seventh studio album, Location Lost, on April 24th, via Failure Records/Arduous Records/Virgin Music Group. They have now shared the album’s latest single, “A Way Down,” with an official lyric video. Watch it below and find out more.
Stream “A Way Down” here: https://ffm.to/awaydown
Pre-save/pre-order Location Lost here: https://ffm.to/locationlost
“Musically speaking, “A Way Down” is an homage to two bands who actually got me to pick up the guitar and try to write my own music: The Cure and Siouxsie & The Banshees, specifically their early 80s periods with albums like Juju and Pornography,” notes vocalist Ken Andrews. “I was captured by the angular guitar approach and the unapologetic dark atmospheres that dripped off those records. Lyrically, “A Way Down” is another study in miscommunication and the resulting loneliness it often brings. No silver linings here.”
Recorded after the completion of the recent Hulu/Disney+ documentary Every Time You Lose Your Mind, Location Lost doesn’t arrive as a victory lap or a nostalgia exercise. Instead, it sounds like a band actively negotiating where — and who — they are now. “It’s very different,” guitarist/bassist Greg Edwards says plainly of the follow-up to 2021’s Wild Type Droid. “There are sounds and parts that really don’t have any precedence within the Failure world.” The album’s lead single “The Air’s on Fire” embodies this sense of disorienting unfamiliarity. Stream it here: https://ffm.to/theairsonfire and watch the official video here: https://youtu.be/c_Z5OXxLRRQ
At the opposite emotional pole is the largely acoustic, straight-up breakup song “The Rising Skyline” featuring Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams, an artist whose longtime public admiration for Failure has unquestionably helped introduce the band to an entirely new generation of listeners. The album also delivers dose after dose of Andrews, Edwards and drummer Kelli Scott’s signature creative and instrumental interplay, from the warning bell-like guitar chimes on propulsive opener “Crash Test Delayed,” to the elastic, bass-driven groove of “Halo and Grain” and the grinding, methodical wall of sound on “Solid State,” which wouldn’t have sounded out of place on 1996’s all-time-classic Fantastic Planet. Other songs such as the slow-burning, dream-inspired closer “Moonlight Understands” and the stuttering “Someday Soon” emerged from singular, unrepeatable moments.
Failure has already sold out many of their spring headline North American tour dates, kicking off with a sold out album release show on April 21 at Zebulon in Los Angeles and wrapping in Toronto on May 20th. All Under Heaven is supporting all headline dates starting May 3. Their run of shows also includes festival appearances at Las Vegas’ Sick New World, Chicago’s SPACE ECHO @ Radius and Daytona Beach’s Welcome to Rockville. For tickets links and more information, visit https://www.failureband.com
Failure’s musical communion has intrigued critics, fans, and peers for more than three decades. Following Comfort and Magnified, the trio created what is largely considered one of the ‘90s most influential and innovative albums, 1996’s Fantastic Planet. The 17-track collection earned rave reviews and onboarded a trove of new fans and also led the band to headline Lollapalooza’s second stage and craft one of the era’s most recognizable videos, “Stuck on You.” After a 17-year hiatus, Failure returned with The Heart Is a Monster in 2015, followed by 2018’s In the Future Your Body Will Be the Furthest Thing from Your Mind and 2021’s Wild Type Droid – all now available on Spotify for the first time since 2022.
Failure tour dates
Apr 21 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon (Album Release Show) *SOLD OUT
Apr 25 Las Vegas – Sick New World Festival
May 02 Chicago, IL – SPACE ECHO @ Radius
May 03 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop *SOLD OUT
May 05 Nashville, TN – Basement East
May 06 Atlanta, GA Masquerade – Hell
May 08 Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome To Rockville Festival
May 09 Asheville, NC – Eulogy *SOLD OUT
May 10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
May 12 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge *SOLD OUT
May 13 Cambridge, MA – Sinclair
May 14 Hamden, CT – Space *SOLD OUT
May 15 Washington, DC – Union Stage
May 16 Harrisburg, PA – Arrow at Archer Music Hall
May 17 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
May 19 Detroit, MI – Shelter *SOLD OUT
May 20 Toronto, ON – Opera House
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