Failure have announced their seventh album ‘Location Lost’, featuring a collaboration with Hayley Williams. Listen to new single ‘The Air’s On Fire’ below.
The Los Angeles band are due to release the follow-up to 2021’s ‘Wild Type Droid’ on April 24, marking their first project under Failure Records/Arduous Records/Virgin Music Group. Pre-order/pre-save here.
Comprising nine new tracks, the forthcoming LP is said to “showcase a focused, modern and ever-evolving vision” of Failure’s sound.
‘Location Lost’ was recorded after the completion of the recent Hulu/Disney+ documentary about the group, Every Time You Lose Your Mind, which included contributions from Paramore singer Williams, among others.
Guitarist/bassist Greg Edwards said that the album is “very different” to what fans expect from the band. “There are sounds and parts that really don’t have any precedence within the Failure world,” he added.
A press release notes that ‘Location Lost’ is not a “victory lap or a nostalgia exercise”, but instead “sounds like a band actively negotiating where – and who – they are in 2026.
The first single, ‘The Air’s On Fire’, embodies a sense of disorienting unfamiliarity. It explores frontman Ken Andrews’ recovery from a serious back injury that required surgery, shortly after he finished editing the documentary.
Despite the operation being technically successful, the singer and musician’s recovery was not smooth sailing. ‘The Air’s On Fire’ is described as “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”.
He explained: “That song is directly about my surgery and waking up. I basically coded. Everything was spinning. I kept saying, ‘Turn the air on. I’m fine – just take me home’. I was definitely not fine.”
The dark and brooding single hears Andrews sing: “It’s never felt this way before/ Things don’t work like they did before/ Feel them turn you inside out/ As the spiders are crawling down/ It’s never felt this way before.”
‘The Air’s On Fire’ is accompanied by a suitably grainy and haunting black-and-white video, directed by Sean Stout.
Elsewhere on ‘Location Lost’, Williams appears on “a largely acoustic, straight-up breakup song” titled ‘The Rising Skyline’. The Paramore singer and soloist is a longtime Failure fan, and covered their 1996 track ‘Daylight’ with Andrews at an LA benefit concert last year.
The new album also contains “dose after dose of Andrews, Edwards and [drummer Kellii] Scott’s signature creative and instrumental interplay”. Other song titles include ‘Crash Test Delayed’, ‘Halo And Grain’, ‘Solid State’ and ‘Moonlight Understands’.
The full tracklist for Failure’s ‘Location Lost’ is:
1 – ‘Crash Test Delayed’
2 – ‘The Rising Skyline’ (featuring Hayley Williams)
3 – ‘Solid State’
4 – ‘The Air’s On Fire’
5 – ‘Halo And Grain’
6 – ‘Someday Soon’
7 – ‘Location Lost’
8 – ‘A Way Down’
9 – ‘Moonlight Understands’
Failure are set to embark on a North American headline tour this spring, kicking off with an album release show in LA on April 21. Further dates will follow in Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Toronto and other cities throughout May.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time this Friday (February 20) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.
The band are scheduled to perform at Sick New World Festival 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Welcome To Rockville in Daytona Beach, Florida, too.
Failure’s North American tour dates for 2026 are:
APRIL
21 – Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA
25 – Sick New World Festival, Las Vegas, NV
MAY
02 – Radius (SPACE ECHO), Chicago, IL
03 – Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
05 – The Basement East, Nashville, TN
06 – Masquerade – Hell, Atlanta, GA
08 – Welcome To Rockville Festival, Daytona Beach, FL
09 – Eulogy, Asheville, NC
10 – Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC
12 – Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
13 – The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA
14 – Space Ballroom, Hamden, CT
15 – Union Stage, Washington, DC
16 – Archer Music Hall (Arrow), Harrisburg, PA
17 – Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA
19 – The Shelter, Detroit, MI
20 – The Opera House, Toronto, ON
