Though he found the process of releasing an EP every few months challenging—especially given his role filling in for James Iha in A Perfect Circle taking up his time—Failure‘s Greg Edwards remains hopeful for the reactivated band’s future.
2018 saw Failure release a series of EPs that were ultimately combined into a new album from the group titled “In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind“. In a recent interview with Stereogum, Edwards spoke of how the current state of the band has paved the way for a potential series of future releases.
When asked what has changed with the band since the 90s when the group originally came to an end amid various struggles with drug abuse and more, he replied:
“…The chemistry that I have with Ken and the way that we complement each other and fill in for each other’s weaknesses, it’s something that I’ve really grown to appreciate more and more since we reformed and on these last two records.
Conversations and even arguments and friction… It’s all just resolved fast. I feel like I could imagine making six more Failure records easily, looking three, five years down the road. It’s basically like if we have four months blocked out, Failure will deliver a record. That feels good. I feel like it’s a well-oiled machine and we’re not just repeating formula.
There’s a lot of experimentation and discovery, and we have intelligent conversations about what we disagree about and what we’re trying to do, and we find a way through those. It’s everything that I would hope for in a collaboration. A lot of things didn’t exist in the earlier days with ‘Fantastic Planet‘.”
