FAILURE SHARE "THE RISING SKYLINE (FEAT. HAYLEY WILLIAMS)"
- Apr 21
- 4 min read
Today, beloved and influential Los Angeles trio Failure – Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards, and Kellii Scott – return with "The Rising Skyline (feat. Hayley Williams)," the latest single from Location Lost, their seventh studio album out this Friday, April 24th, via Failure Records/Arduous Records/Virgin Music Group. The largely acoustic breakup song features Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams, an artist whose longtime public admiration for Failure has unquestionably helped introduce the band to an entirely new generation of listeners. Of working with Williams, who is also featured in the band's recent Hulu/Disney+ documentary Every Time You Lose Your Mind, Andrews notes: "Failure doesn't do a lot of collaborations, but my friendship with Hayley, and her long standing support of the band, turned this song into a very satisfying duet. It's probably the most delicate song we've ever done and her vocal approach really brought that out."
Failure also announce an extensive fall tour today, kicking off Sep 30th in Vancouver. The band has already sold out many of their spring headline North American tour dates, kicking off with a sold-out album release show tonight, April 21st, at Zebulon in Los Angeles and wrapping in Toronto on May 20th. All Under Heaven is supporting all spring headline dates starting May 3 and Quannnic will support on all fall headline shows. Their run of shows also includes festival appearances at Las Vegas' Sick New World, Chicago's SPACE ECHO @ Radius and Daytona Beach's Welcome to Rockville. For ticket links and more information, visit https://www.failureband.com.
Location Lost features nine new tracks that showcase a focused, modern and ever-evolving vision of Failure's utterly unique sound. The album doesn'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 follow-up to 2021's Wild Type Droid. "There are sounds and parts that really don't have any precedence within the Failure world." The album's lead single "The Air's on Fire" embodies this sense of disorienting unfamiliarity and the recent single "A Way Down", is an homage to early '80s The Cure and Siouxsie & The Banshees, inspired by their angular guitar approach and the unapologetic dark atmospheres.
The album also delivers dose after dose of Andrews, Edwards and Scott's signature creative and instrumental interplay, from the warning bell-like guitar chimes on propulsive opener "Crash Test 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 "Moonlight Understands" and the stuttering "Someday Soon"emerged from singular, unrepeatable moments.
Pre-save / pre-order Location Lost here: https://ffm.to/locationlost.
Failure's musical communion has intrigued critics, fans, and peers for more than three decades. Following Comfort and Magnified, the trio created what is largely considered one of the '90s most influential and innovative albums, 1996's Fantastic Planet. The 17-track collection earned rave reviews and onboarded a trove of new fans and also led the band to headline Lollapalooza's second stage and craft one of the era's most recognisable videos, "Stuck on You." After a 17-year hiatus, Failure returned with The Heart Is a Monster in 2015, followed by 2018's In the Future Your Body Will Be the Furthest Thing from Your Mind and 2021's Wild Type Droid – all now available on Spotify for the first time since 2022.
'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 |
FAILURE TOUR DATES Apr 21 Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon (Album Release Show) *SOLD OUT Apr 25 Las Vegas - Sick New World Festival May 02 Chicago, IL - SPACE ECHO @ Radius May 03 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop *SOLD OUT May 05 Nashville, TN - Basement East *SOLD OUT May 06 Atlanta, GA Masquerade - Hell May 08 Daytona Beach, FL - Welcome To Rockville Festival May 09 Asheville, NC - Eulogy *SOLD OUT May 10 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle May 12 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge *SOLD OUT May 13 Cambridge, MA - Sinclair *SOLD OUT May 14 Hamden, CT - Space *SOLD OUT May 15 Washington, DC - Union Stage May 16 Harrisburg, PA - Arrow at Archer Music Hall May 17 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts May 19 Detroit, MI - Shelter *SOLD OUT May 20 Toronto, ON - Opera House The Rising Skyline Fall Tour Sep 30 San Francisco/Berkeley, CA - The Chapel Oct 2 Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre Oct 03 Seattle, WA - Showbox Oct 04 Portland, OR - Revolution Hall Oct 07 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Oct 08 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room Oct 09 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave II Oct 11 Columbus, OH - A&R Bar Oct 13 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw Oct 14 Providence, RI - The Met Oct 16 Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom Oct 17 Louisville, KY - Headliners Oct 18 Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme Oct 20 Indianapolis, IN - Vogue Oct 21 St. Louis, MO - Delmar Hall Oct 22 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck Oct 23 Oklahoma City, OK - Beer City Music Hall Oct 24 Dallas, TX - Sick New World Dallas Oct 26 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre Oct 28 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom Oct 29 San Diego, CA - Music Box Oct 30 Los Angeles, CA - The Belasco **all headline spring dates with All Under Heaven, starting May 3 **all headline fall dates with special guests Quannnic, starting Sep 30 |
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