Failure tips its hat in a goth-y direction on “A Way Down,” the second single from its upcoming album Location Lost. As previously reported, the set will be released April 24 on the band’s own Failure Records imprint through band manager Blaze James’ new Arduous Records label and Virgin Music Group.
Group member Ken Andrews says “A Way Down” is “an homage to two bands who actually got me to pick up the guitar and try to write my own music: the Cure and Siouxsie & the Banshees, specifically their early ’80s periods with albums like Juju and Pornography. I was captured by the angular guitar approach and the unapologetic dark atmospheres that dripped off those records. Lyrically, ‘A Way Down’ is another study in miscommunication and the resulting loneliness it often brings. No silver linings here.”
Andrews, Greg Edwards and Kellii Scott began jamming on the material that would turn into the nine new songs on Location Lost in late 2024, after they finished a long-in-the-works documentary on the band, Every Time You Lose Your Mind. Andrews was still recovering at the time from complicated back surgery and channeled the experience into first single “The Air’s on Fire,”which was released last month.
“It’s very different,” Edwards says of the material on Location Lost. “There are sounds and parts that really don’t have any precedence within the Failure world.”
Failure will introduce material from Location Lost on a spring club tour, which begins April 21 in Log Angeles and features support from New Jersey shoegaze band All Under Heaven.
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