Space rock greats Failure have announced “Location Lost” as their seventh studio album. That 9-song effort will be arriving on April 24th via their own Failure Records in conjunction with Arduous Records, a new Virgin Music Group imprint overseen by veteran manager Blaze James.
“Location Lost” comes with a guest appearance from a long-time Failure superfan in Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams, who appears on “The Rising Skyline“. Williams covered Failure‘s “Daylight” live with the band’s frontman Ken Andrews last February. Paramore have also covered several Failure tracks in the past.
Speaking of this newest collection of songs, Failure bassist, etc. Greg Edwards stated: “It’s very different. There are sounds and parts that really don’t have any precedence within the Failure world.”
The song “The Air’s On Fire” has been unveiled as the first single from this new offering and is now streaming below. That track was directly influenced by a back injury that vocalist/guitarist, etc. Ken Andrews suffered and a challenging recovery process that ensued from the resulting surgery.
He relayed, “That song is directly about my surgery and waking up. 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.” A Sean Stout-directed video for that song is now available.
“Location Lost” track listing:
01 – “Crash Test Delayed“
02 – “The Rising Skyline” (feat. 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“
For pre-order options, see ffm.to/locationlost. Failure will be mounting the following initial touring campaign in support of this new record with All Under Heaven appearing as support at most stops:
04/21 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon (album release show)
04/25 Las Vegas – Sick New World Festival
05/02 Chicago, IL – SPACE ECHO @ Radius
05/03 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
05/05 Nashville, TN – Basement East
05/06 Atlanta, GA Masquerade – Hell
05/08 Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome To Rockville Festival
05/09 Asheville, NC – Eulogy
05/10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
05/12 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
05/13 Cambridge, MA – Sinclair
05/14 Hamden, CT – Space
05/15 Washington, DC – Union Stage
05/16 Harrisburg, PA – Arrow at Archer Music Hall
05/17 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
05/19 Detroit, MI – Shelter
05/20 Toronto, ON – Opera House
Tickets will be available this Friday, February 20th at 10:00am local time.
