Beloved and influential Los Angeles trio Failure – Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards, and Kelli Scott – announce Location Lost, their seventh studio album and fourth since reuniting in 2014 after a 17-year-hiatus, along with a spring North American tour. The LP features nine new tracks that showcase a focused, modern and ever-evolving vision of Failure’s utterly unique sound, led by first single "The Air’s on Fire." Location Lost will arrive April 24th as the first release under Failure Records/Arduous Records/Virgin Music Group.
Pre-save / pre-order Location Lost here: https://ffm.to/locationlost.
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,” 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 Air’s on Fire” embodies this sense of disorienting unfamiliarity. Almost immediately after finishing editing the documentary, Andrews suffered a serious back injury that required surgery. The operation was technically successful; the recovery was not. The single is the album’s most literal confrontation with Andrews’ medical trauma, its oppressive atmospherics and crushing bottom end mirroring his struggle to breathe on his own. “That song is directly about my surgery and waking up,” he explains. “I basically coded. Everything was spinning. I kept saying, ‘Turn the air on. I’m fine—just take me home.’ I was definitely not fine.”
Listen to “The Air’s On Fire” HERE and watch the video for the track, directed by Sean Stout, HERE.
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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 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 will premiere material from Location Lost on their spring headline North American tour, kicking off with an 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. Tickets go on sale to the public this Friday, February 20th at 10am local time. 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.
‘LOCATION LOST’ TRACK LISTING
01 - Crash Test Delayed
02 - The Rising Skyline ft. Hayley Williams
03 - Solid State
04 - The Air's on Fire
05 - Halo and Grain
06 - Someday Soon
07 - Location Lost
08 - A Way Down
09 - Moonlight Understands
FAILURE TOUR DATES
Apr 21 Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon (Album Release Show)
Apr 25 Las Vegas - Sick New World Festival
May 02 Chicago, IL - SPACE ECHO @ Radius
May 03 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
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
May 10 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
May 12 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
May 13 Cambridge, MA - Sinclair
May 14 Hamden, CT - Space
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
May 20 Toronto, ON - Opera House
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