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:cdbd7d12-0b61-4611-87e6-9a158f61b308@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261011T225755Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20261020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20261020T210000 SUMMARY:Failure DESCRIPTION:For a band so closely associated with weight\, density\, and mass\, Failure have spent much of their career writing about what happen s 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\, Greg Edwards\, and Kelli Scott are still followin g the sound wherever it leads\, even when it’s uncomfortable\, unfamilia r\, or disruptive. Location Lost\, the band’s seventh album and their fo urth since improbably reuniting in 2014 after a 17-year hiatus\, doesn’t arrive as a victory lap or a nostalgia exercise. Instead\, it sounds li ke a band actively negotiating where — and who — they are now. “It’s ver y different\,” Edwards says 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 Failure world.” That sense of divergence is insep arable from how Location Lost came together. Following Wild Type Droid\, Failure completed a long-gestating documentary (Every Time You Lose You r Mind) and concert film (We Are Hallucinations) that chronicled their h istory\, drug-marred breakup\, and improbable second life playing for a newfound younger and more diverse audience. The process was exhaustive a nd revealing. Almost immediately after finishing the film\, Andrews suff ered a serious back injury that required surgery. The operation was tech nically successful\; the recovery was not. “It kind of messed up my brai n chemistry somehow\,” he says. “It wasn’t just physical recovery.” By l ate 2024\, Failure were finally able to begin recording in earnest. As w ith Wild Type Droid\, Andrews\, Edwards\, and Scott rented a studio and spent weeks improvising together as a trio\, recording hours of unfilter ed material without overthinking where it might lead. But the dynamic in side those sessions had shifted. Andrews\, still recovering\, felt creat ively unmoored. “I was participating\, but my editorial side just wasn’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 idea.’ W e had a lot of material\, but I didn’t know what it was.” Edwards notice d 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 b ecome 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 emotional dimension. It can be destabilizing.” When Andrews took the sessions bac k to his L.A. home studio 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 co mpletely 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 the tim e we finished it\, I felt totally reconnected.” Musically\, that reconne ction manifests as the most varied record Failure has ever made. There a re simpler\, more driving songs than the band has historically favored\, two ballads (an anomaly in their catalog)\, and moments that feel almos t willfully alien. “I was just following what felt good\,” Andrews says. “More of the editorial side of my brain was turned off. It was not calc ulated\, but there’s something about it that’s a little more accessible. ” Throughout\, Location Lost delivers dose after dose of Andrews\, Edwar ds and Scott’s utterly unique creative and instrumental interplay\, from the warning bell-like guitar chimes on propulsive opener “Crash Test De layed\,” to the elastic\, bass-driven groove of “Halo and Grain” and the grinding\, methodical wall of sound on “Solid State\,” which wouldn’t h ave sounded out of place on 1996’s all-time-classic Fantastic Planet. Ot her songs such as the slow-burning\, dream-inspired closer “Moonlight Un derstands” and the stuttering “Someday Soon\,” emerged from singular\, u nrepeatable moments. “As soon as I heard Kelli’s beat and the sound Greg was making with an E-bow\, 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 on Fire” is the album’s most literal confrontatio n with Andrews’ medical trauma\, its oppressive atmospherics and crushin g bottom end mirroring his struggle to breathe on his own. “That song is directly about my surgery and waking up\,” he explains. “I basically co ded. Everything was spinning. I kept saying\, ‘Turn the air on. I’m fine —just take me home.’ I was definitely not fine.” At the opposite emotion al pole is the largely acoustic\, straight-up breakup song “The Rising S kyline” featuring Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams\, an artist whose longtime public admiration for Failure has unquestionably helped introdu ce the band to an entirely new generation of listeners—a good deal of th em female. Williams also appears in the 2023 documentary\, underscoring her long-standing connection to the band. “I heard a female voice an oct ave 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 wildfire victims. “We ended up having a day together\, so I dropped a couple son gs on her and she freaked out.” “That song made sense for her emotionall y\,” Edwards opines. “It’s acoustic and very sad\, but also wistfully ho peful. 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\, and it was nice to have her sing on one of those moods. Three decades after Fantastic Planet\, Failure is not attempting to relive the past. They’re still improvising\, still arguing\, still trusting one another enough t o risk uncertainty. And while Location Lost doesn’t pretend to offer eas y answers\, it documents a band in motion\, untethered and searching — a nd\, against all odds\, still very much alive. “This is the least cohesi ve record we’ve ever done\,” Edwards says. “Emotionally\, thematically\, procedurally. But I don’t think that’s a negative. I think that may be one of its strengths.” He continues\, “Fantastic Planet and [2015’s] The Heart Is a Monster were separated by a long\, yawning inflection point. 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 h ere.”\n\nTickets: https://thevogue.com/events/failure-10-20-2026-indiana polis\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/cdbd7d12-0b61-4611-87e6-9a158 f61b308 LOCATION:Vogue Theatre - IN\, 6259 North College Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN 46220 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/cdbd7d12-0b61-4611-87e6-9a158f61b30 8 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR