Failure - "The Air's on Fire"

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Photo by Lyndsey Byrnes

With their upcoming seventh overall studio album, the highly influential band Failure will have released more albums since reuniting in 2014 than they did during their first run. The first single from that album, "The Air's on Fire," shows the band expanding their sound while still being rooted in what has always made them great. The song is a dark and moody one that is always threatening to explode but never quite does. This is an example of 90's alt-rock meets art rock at its very finest. It's the kind of song that could easily have come out thirty years ago, but that doesn't mean it sounds dated. After the first listen, "The Air's on Fire" will sound like a killer alt-rocker from a 90's band that hasn't lost a step at all. The more you listen, the more complex Failure get on the single, and the more the song reveals itself to you.

Ken Andrews says of his band's latest single:

“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.”

You can watch the video for "The Air's on Fire" below. Location Lost is due out April 24 on Failure Records/Arduous Records/Virgin Music Group, and is available to pre-order here. For more on Failure, check out the band on Instagram and Facebook. Upcoming tour dates are below the video and include a May 13 stop at The Sinclair in Cambridge, MA.


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

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