BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d6e2e026-2374-43ec-871f-1027e99516a6@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261011T234401Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20261026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20261026T210000 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\, and revealing. Almost immediately after finishing the film\, Andrews su ffered a serious back injury that required surgery. The operation was te chnically successful\; the recovery was not. “It kind of messed up my br ain 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 an d spent weeks improvising together as a trio\, recording hours of unfilt ered material without overthinking where it might lead. But the dynamic inside those sessions had shifted. Andrews\, still recovering\, felt cre atively unmoored. “I was participating\, but my editorial side just wasn ’t working\,” he says. “Luckily\, Kelli and Greg were able to step up an d take the lead in terms of confidently saying\, ‘that was a good idea.’ We had a lot of material\, but I didn’t know what it was.” Edwards noti ced 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 of that creative part of the record. Even if yo u’re the most well-adjusted person in the world\, surgery has an emotion al dimension. It can be destabilizing.” When Andrews took the sessions b ack to his L.A. home studio and began shaping them into songs\, somethin g 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 th e song “Location Lost” also serve as the album’s title. “It resonated wi th me immediately\, because at the beginning of making the record\, I wa s lost\,” Andrews says. “I lost my tether of love for the band. By the t ime we finished it\, I felt totally reconnected.” Musically\, that recon nection manifests as the most varied record Failure has ever made. There are 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\, Edwa rds and Scott’s utterly unique creative and instrumental interplay\, fro m the warning bell-like guitar chimes on propulsive opener “Crash Test D elayed\,” to the elastic\, bass-driven groove of “Halo and Grain” and th e grinding\, methodical wall of sound on “Solid State\,” which wouldn’t have sounded out of place on 1996’s all-time-classic Fantastic Planet. O ther songs such as the slow-burning\, dream-inspired closer “Moonlight U nderstands” and the stuttering “Someday Soon” emerged from singular\, un repeatable 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 t hat\,’” Andrews says of the latter\, the oblong rhythms of which almost resemble Synchronicity-era The Police. “There’s nothing in our catalog l ike that.” “The Air’s on Fire” is the album’s most literal confrontation with Andrews’ medical trauma\, its oppressive atmospherics and crushing bottom end mirroring his struggle to breathe on his own. “That song is directly about my surgery and waking up\,” he explains. “I basically cod ed. 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 emotiona l pole is the largely acoustic\, straight-up breakup song “The Rising Sk yline” featuring Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams\, an artist whose l ongtime public admiration for Failure has unquestionably helped introduc e the band to an entirely new generation of listeners—a good deal of the m female. Williams also appears in the 2023 documentary\, underscoring h er long-standing connection to the band. “I heard a female voice an octa ve higher when I was writing it\,” says Andrews of the collaboration\, w hich 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 song s on her and she freaked out.” “That song made sense for her emotionally \,” Edwards opines. “It’s acoustic and very sad\, but also wistfully hop eful. 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 i t was nice to have her sing on one of those moods.\n\nTickets: https://w ww.axs.com/events/1417811/failure-tickets?skin=bluebird\n\nhttps://findl ocal.community/event/d6e2e026-2374-43ec-871f-1027e99516a6 LOCATION:The Bluebird Theater\, Denver\, CO URL:https://findlocal.community/event/d6e2e026-2374-43ec-871f-1027e99516a 6 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR