BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Indiana/Indianapolis BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:be164bba-de5d-450c-8b54-ba2bd8f56fa5@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261011T234021Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20261020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20261020T210000 SUMMARY:Failure DESCRIPTION:Failure with special guest quannnic at The Vogue in Indianapo lis on Tuesday\, October 20\, 2026! Failure Listen | Watch For a band so closely associated with weight\, density\, and mass\, Failure have spen t much of their career writing about what happens when those things fall away. Bodies drift. Memories fragment. Signals distort. Gravity fails. But even after 30 years\, the hugely influential trio of Ken Andrews\, G reg Edwards\, and Kelli Scott are still following the sound wherever it leads\, even when it’s uncomfortable\, unfamiliar\, or disruptive. Locat ion Lost\, the band’s seventh album and their fourth since improbably re uniting in 2014 after a 17-year hiatus\, doesn’t arrive as a victory lap or a nostalgia exercise. Instead\, it sounds like a band actively negot iating where — and who — they are now. “It’s very different\,” Edwards s ays plainly of the nine-song follow-up to 2021’s Wild Type Droid. “There are sounds and parts that really don’t have any precedence within the F ailure world.” That sense of divergence is inseparable from how Location Lost came together. Following Wild Type Droid\, Failure completed a lon g-gestating documentary (Every Time You Lose Your Mind) and concert film (We Are Hallucinations) that chronicled their history\, drug-marred bre akup\, and improbable second life playing for a newfound younger and mor e diverse audience. The process was exhaustive and revealing. Almost imm ediately after finishing the film\, Andrews suffered a serious back inju ry that required surgery. The operation was technically successful\; the recovery was not. “It kind of messed up my brain chemistry somehow\,” h e says. “It wasn’t just physical recovery.” By late 2024\, Failure were finally able to begin recording in earnest. As with Wild Type Droid\, An drews\, Edwards\, and Scott rented a studio and spent weeks improvising together as a trio\, recording hours of unfiltered material without over thinking where it might lead. But the dynamic inside those sessions had shifted. Andrews\, still recovering\, felt creatively unmoored. “I was p articipating\, but my editorial side just wasn’t working\,” he says. “Lu ckily\, Kelli and Greg were able to step up and take the lead in terms o f confidently saying\, ‘That was a good idea.’ We had a lot of material\ , but I didn’t know what it was.” Edwards noticed it too. “Ken was there in actual physical bodily presence\,” he says\, “but I don’t feel like he was really able to get lost in the music or become part of the flow o f that creative part of the record. Even if you’re the most well-adjuste d person in the world\, surgery has an emotional dimension. It can be de stabilizing.” When Andrews took the sessions back to his L.A. home studi o and began shaping them into songs\, something unexpected happened. “I had a burst of creativity—especially lyrically. Since we rebooted\, Greg ’s been the more dominant lyrical force. That completely flipped on this record\,” but not before Edwards suggested the song “Location Lost” als o serve as the album’s title. “It resonated with me immediately\, becaus e at the beginning of making the record\, I was lost\,” Andrews says. “I lost my tether of love for the band. By the time we finished it\, I fel t totally reconnected.” Musically\, that reconnection manifests as the m ost varied record Failure has ever made. There are simpler\, more drivin g songs than the band has historically favored\, two ballads (an anomaly in their catalog)\, and moments that feel almost willfully alien. “I wa s just following what felt good\,” Andrews says. “More of the editorial side of my brain was turned off. It was not calculated\, but there’s som ething about it that’s a little more accessible.” Throughout\, Location Lost delivers dose after dose of Andrews\, Edwards and Scott’s utterly u nique creative and instrumental interplay\, from the warning bell-like g uitar chimes on propulsive opener “Crash Test Delayed\,” to the elastic\ , bass-driven groove of “Halo and Grain” and the grinding\, methodical w all 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 sl ow-burning\, dream-inspired closer “Moonlight Understands” and the stutt ering “Someday Soon\,” emerged from singular\, unrepeatable moments. “As soon as I heard Kelli’s beat and the sound Greg was making with an E-bo w\, I was like\, ‘we have to make a song around that\,’” Andrews says of the latter\, the oblong rhythms of which almost resemble Synchronicity- era The Police. “There’s nothing in our catalog like that.” “The Air’s o n Fire” is the album’s most literal confrontation with Andrews’ medical trauma\, its oppressive atmospherics and crushing bottom end mirroring h is struggle to breathe on his own. “That song is directly about my surge ry and waking up\,” he explains. “I basically coded. Everything was spin ning. I kept saying\, ‘Turn the air on. I’m fine—just take me home.’ I w as definitely not fine.” At the opposite emotional pole is the largely a coustic\, straight-up breakup song “The Rising Skyline” featuring Paramo re frontwoman Hayley Williams\, an artist whose longtime public admirati on for Failure has unquestionably helped introduce the band to an entire ly new generation of listeners—a good deal of them female. Williams also appears in the 2023 documentary\, underscoring her long-standing connec tion to the band. “I heard a female voice an octave higher when I was wr iting it\,” says Andrews of the collaboration\, which was hatched while he and Williams rehearsed an acoustic version of Failure’s “Daylight” fo r an early 2025 benefit for Los Angeles wildfire victims. “We ended up h aving a day together\, so I dropped a couple songs on her and she freake d out.” “That song made sense for her emotionally\,” Edwards opines. “It ’s acoustic and very sad\, but also wistfully hopeful. I always love mus ic that’s so sad it makes you feel good. Quite a bit of our stuff has th at strange counterintuitive quality to it\, and it was nice to have her sing on one of those moods. Three decades after Fantastic Planet\, Failu re is not attempting to relive the past. They’re still improvising\, sti ll arguing\, still trusting one another enough to risk uncertainty. And while Location Lost doesn’t pretend to offer easy answers\, it documents a band in motion\, untethered and searching — and\, against all odds\, still very much alive. “This is the least cohesive record we’ve ever don e\,” Edwards says. “Emotionally\, thematically\, procedurally. But I don ’t think that’s a negative. I think that may be one of its strengths.” H e continues\, “Fantastic Planet and [2015’s] The Heart Is a Monster were separated by a long\, yawning inflection point. Afterward\, it felt lik e a moral imperative to see this thing through a second phase. Is Locati on Lost the last Failure record\, or could it be the transition to yet a nother new phase? We’ll see where it goes from here.”\n\nTickets: https: //thevogue.com/events/failure-10-20-2026-indianapolis\n\nhttps://findloc al.community/event/be164bba-de5d-450c-8b54-ba2bd8f56fa5 LOCATION:The Vogue\, Indianapolis\, IN URL:https://findlocal.community/event/be164bba-de5d-450c-8b54-ba2bd8f56fa 5 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR