Failure announce new album ft. Hayley Williams & tour (exclusive vinyl)

Alternative rock veterans and heavy shoegaze pioneers Failure have announced a new album, Location Lost, due April 24. It was self-produced and one song (“The Rising Skyline”) features Hayley Williams, whose band Paramore covered a Failure song on their second release, The Summer Tic EP, 20 years ago. We’ve got an exclusive opaque silver metallic vinyl vinyl variant that’s limited to 500 and up for pre-order in the BV shop now.

Band member Greg Edwards says the album is “very different” and adds that “there are sounds and parts that really don’t have any precedence within the Failure world.” You can definitely feel that coming through on lead single “The Air’s On Fire,” a brooding rock song that sounds like new territory within this band’s already-musically-diverse catalog. Check out the song and its Sean Stout-directed video below.

Vocalist Ken Andrews says the song was written about the serious back injury that he suffered shortly after editing the recent Failure documentary Every Time You Lose Your Mind that required him to get surgery. “I basically coded,” he says. “Everything was spinning. I kept saying, ‘Turn the air on. I’m fine—just take me home.’ I was definitely not fine.”

Also different for Failure is the label this album is coming out on. Location Lost marks the first release on veteran artist manager Blaze James‘ (Coheed and Cambria, Touché Amoré, etc) new Virgin Music Group imprint Arduous Records, and it’s also a co-release with Failure’s own Failure Records.

Failure have also announced a tour in support of the album, beginning with an album release show on Aril 21 at LA’s Zebulon, which is just a few days before the band plays Sick New World in Vegas. NYC gets a stop on May 12 at Le Poisson Rouge.

Support on the tour comes from NJ’s All Under Heaven, a shoegazy rock band who almost definitely take some influence from Failure. All dates are listed below.

Pick up our exclusive vinyl variant of Location Lost here.

Tracklist
01 – Crash Test Delayed
02 – The Rising Skyline ft. 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 — 2026 Tour Dates
Apr 21 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon (Album Release Show)
Apr 25 Las Vegas – Sick New World Festival
May 02 Chicago, IL – SPACE ECHO @ Radius
May 03 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
May 05 Nashville, TN – Basement East
May 06 Atlanta, GA Masquerade – Hell
May 08 Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome To Rockville Festival
May 09 Asheville, NC – Eulogy
May 10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
May 12 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
May 13 Cambridge, MA – Sinclair
May 14 Hamden, CT – Space
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
May 20 Toronto, ON – Opera House