LA alt-rock veterans Failure are a textbook cult band, and they’ve inspired many of their younger peers. Next month, they’ll release Location Lost, their seventh album, and we’ve already posted lead single “The Air’s On Fire.” The LP features an appearance from Failure devotee Hayley Williams, who recently joined frontman Ken Andrews to cover a Failure song at an LA benefit. But Failure’s new single isn’t the Williams collab; it’s the trio’s musical salute to the goth-rock that originally inspired them.
Failure’s latest is called “A Way Down,” and it’s a majestic guitar-churn. Here’s what Andrews says about the track in a press release:
Musically speaking, “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.
Check it out below.
Location Lost is out 4/24 on Failure Records/Arduous Records/Virgin Music Group.
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