BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:907adac4-a1da-430c-83d7-c1234daf1546@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261011T234048Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T210000 SUMMARY:FAILURE DESCRIPTION:Funtime Presents FAILURE THE RISING SKYLINE TOUR with special guest quannnic Ages 12+\, Minors under 16 must be accompanied by a pare nt Magnified VIP Includes: -Early entry and watch soundcheck -Hang with the band. -Professional photo and signing. -Laminate and lanyard -Exclus ive lapel Pin -Exclusive Location Lost tote bag -10% off on merch\, and first access. For a band so closely associated with weight\, density\, a nd mass\, Failure have spent much of their career writing about what hap pens when those things fall away. Bodies drift. Memories fragment. Signa ls distort. Gravity fails. But even after 30 years\, the hugely influent ial trio of Ken Andrews\, Greg Edwards\, and Kelli Scott are still follo wing the sound wherever it leads\, even when it’s uncomfortable\, unfami liar\, or disruptive. Location Lost\, the band’s seventh album and their fourth since improbably reuniting in 2014 after a 17-year-hiatus\, does n’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 nine-song follow-up to 202 1’s Wild Type Droid. “There are sounds and parts that really don’t have any precedence within the Failure world.” That sense of divergence is in separable from how Location Lost came together. Following Wild Type Droi d\, Failure completed a long-gestating documentary (Every Time You Lose Your Mind) and concert film (We Are Hallucinations) that chronicled thei r history\, drug-marred breakup\, and improbable second life playing for a newfound younger and more diverse audience. The process was exhaustiv e\, and revealing. Almost immediately after finishing the film\, Andrews suffered a serious back injury that required surgery. The operation was technically successful\; the recovery was not. “It kind of messed up my brain chemistry somehow\,” he says. “It wasn’t just physical recovery.” By late 2024\, Failure were finally able to begin recording in earnest. As with Wild Type Droid\, Andrews\, Edwards\, and Scott rented a studio and spent weeks improvising together as a trio\, recording hours of unf iltered material without overthinking where it might lead. But the dynam ic inside those sessions had shifted. Andrews\, still recovering\, felt creatively unmoored. “I was participating\, but my editorial side just w asn’t working\,” he says. “Luckily\, Kelli and Greg were able to step up and take the lead in terms of confidently saying\, ‘that was a good ide a.’ We had a lot of material\, but I didn’t know what it was.” Edwards n oticed it too. “Ken was there in actual physical bodily presence\,” he s ays\, “but I don’t feel like he was really able to get lost in the music or become part of the flow of that creative part of the record. Even if you’re the most well-adjusted person in the world\, surgery has an emot ional dimension. It can be destabilizing.” When Andrews took the session s back to his L.A. home studio and began shaping them into songs\, somet hing unexpected happened. “I had a burst of creativity—especially lyrica lly. Since we rebooted\, Greg’s been the more dominant lyrical force. Th at completely flipped on this record\,” but not before Edwards suggested the song “Location Lost” also serve as the album’s title. “It resonated with me immediately\, because at the beginning of making the record\, I was lost\,” Andrews says. “I lost my tether of love for the band. By th e time we finished it\, I felt totally reconnected.” Musically\, that re connection manifests as the most varied record Failure has ever made. Th ere are simpler\, more driving songs than the band has historically favo red\, two ballads (an anomaly in their catalog) and moments that feel al most willfully alien. “I was just following what felt good\,” Andrews sa ys. “More of the editorial side of my brain was turned off. It was not c alculated\, but there’s something about it that’s a little more accessib le..” Throughout\, Location Lost delivers dose after dose of Andrews\, E dwards and Scott’s utterly unique creative and instrumental interplay\, from the warning bell-like guitar chimes on propulsive opener “Crash Tes t 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 “Moonligh t Understands” and the stuttering “Someday Soon” emerged from singular\, unrepeatable moments. “As soon as I heard Kelli’s beat and the sound Gr eg was making with an E-bow\, I was like\, ‘we have to make a song aroun d that\,’” Andrews says of the latter\, the oblong rhythms of which almo st resemble Synchronicity-era The Police. “There’s nothing in our catalo g like that.” “The Air’s on Fire” is the album’s most literal confrontat ion with Andrews’ medical trauma\, its oppressive atmospherics and crush ing 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 fi ne—just take me home.’ I was definitely not fine.” At the opposite emoti onal pole is the largely acoustic\, straight-up breakup song “The Rising Skyline” featuring Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams\, an artist whos e longtime public admiration for Failure has unquestionably helped intro duce the band to an entirely new generation of listeners—a good deal of them female. Williams also appears in the 2023 documentary\, underscorin g her long-standing connection to the band. “I heard a female voice an o ctave higher when I was writing it\,” says Andrews of the collaboration\ , which was hatched while he and Williams rehearsed an acoustic version of Failure’s “Daylight” for an early 2025 benefit for Los Angeles wildfi re victims. “We ended up having a day together\, so I dropped a couple s ongs on her and she freaked out.” “That song made sense for her emotiona lly\,” Edwards opines. “It’s acoustic and very sad\, but also wistfully hopeful. I always love music that’s so sad it makes you feel good. Quite a bit of our stuff has that strange counterintuitive quality to it\, an d it was nice to have her sing on one of those moods. Three decades afte r Fantastic Planet\, Failure is not attempting to relive the past. They’ re still improvising\, still arguing\, still trusting one another enough to risk uncertainty. And while Location Lost doesn’t pretend to offer e asy answers\, it documents a band in motion\, untethered and searching — and\, against all odds\, still very much alive. “This is the least cohe sive record we’ve ever done\,” Edwards says. “Emotionally\, thematically \, procedurally. But I don’t think that’s a negative. I think that may b e one of its strengths.” He continues\, “Fantastic Planet and [2015’s] T he Heart Is a Monster were separated by a long\, yawning inflection poin t. Afterward\, it felt like a moral imperative to see this thing through a second phase. Is Location Lost the last Failure record\, or could it be the transition to yet another new phase? We’ll see where it goes from here.”\n\nTickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/71239123/failure-buffa lo-town-ballroom-buffalony?partner_id=100\n\nhttps://findlocal.community /event/907adac4-a1da-430c-83d7-c1234daf1546 LOCATION:Town Ballroom\, Buffalo\, NY URL:https://findlocal.community/event/907adac4-a1da-430c-83d7-c1234daf154 6 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR