ARTISTFailure

Failure, the trio of Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards, and Kelli Scott, have spent much of their career writing about what happens when weight, density, and mass fall away: bodies drift, memories fragment, signals distort, and gravity fails. After 30 years, the group is still following sound wherever it leads, even when the direction is uncomfortable, unfamiliar, or disruptive.

Location Lost is the band’s seventh album and its fourth since reuniting in 2014 after a 17-year hiatus. Rather than arriving as a victory lap or an exercise in nostalgia, it reflects a band negotiating its present. The nine-song album follows 2021’s Wild Type Droid. Greg Edwards describes it as “very different,” with sounds and parts that have no precedent within the Failure world.