Failure Announce New Album, Release First Single

Cult hero alt rock act Failure will return with their sixth album, Wild Type Droid, in December. Along with the announcement comes the album’s first single, “Headstand.”

Guitarist/bassist Greg Edwards explains of the single:

“The lyrics come from my earliest memory of spacing-out in my room when I was seven, trying to conceive of infinity and watching the dust falling through the bars of sunlight pouring through my blinds. I had heard that a lot of that dust was made up of skin cells and that really stuck with me. It’s kind of a love song to those bizarre innocent moments of solitude.”

Guitarist/vocalist Ken Andrews adds:

“To me, it captures a lot of the new musical approaches and techniques we were going for on this album, but somehow is still quintessential Failure. We’ve been together long enough to know that some of our best ideas come directly from these experimental sessions. For this album, we simply cultivated that methodology for a much longer time than we have in the past. It brought out the trio aspect of the band. There was a feeling we could really push the individual parts further away from each other and let the more interesting and challenging combinations take center stage.”

Wild Type Droid is set for release on December 3 via the band’s own Failure Music; pre-order here.