Failure Announces July 2020 Residencies Performing First Three Albums in Full

Los Angeles-based rock band Failure announced their residency shows in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City in 2020. The alternative rockers will perform their three albums Comfort, Magnified and Fantastic Planet to support a new-released vinyl box set Failure 1992-1996.

Failure’s upcoming three shows mark their first live performance of Comfort and Magnified as in a trio of residencies entirety. The tours embark on July 9 -11 at Chicago’s Thalia Hall, then stops at The Echoplex in Los Angeles on July 16 -18, before wrapping up on July 23 – 25 at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom.

The band, meanwhile, released a four-LP vinyl box set, featuring the three albums, Comfort, Magnified and Fantastic Planet alongside some unreleased songs in the ‘90s as a fourth vinyl. Group vocalist Ken Andrews, remixed, restored and remastered the three early albums. “Everything has been sourced directly from first generation multitrack and stereo master tapes. This is us finally getting to present our early work the way we’ve always wanted to” Andrews believes.

Speaking of the new release, guitarist Greg Edwards recalls his memory of the band’s performances in the initial era: “Listening to the B-sides and outtakes from that first year of being a band takes me right back to playing the tiny stage at Jabberjaw in Los Angeles. It’s always surprising to me how much of the expansiveness and atmosphere of the later records exist in embryonic form on those earliest stripped-down recordings.”

After a reunion in 2014, Failure released The Heart Is a Monster in 2015 and In the Future Your Body Will Be the Furthest Thing From Your Mind in 2018.

You can also purchase the vinyl box set FAILURE: 1992 to 1996 HERE. Tickets for all shows are available this Friday, Dec. 20, at 10 am local time with VIP packages.

FAILURE: 1992 – 1996 Tracklist:

Comfort

1. Submission
2. Macaque
3. Something
4. Screen Man
5. Swallow
6. Muffled Snaps
7. Kindred
8. Pro-Catastrophe
9. Princess
10. Salt Wound

Magnified

1. Let It Drip
2. Moth
3. Frogs
4. Bernie
5. Magnified
6. Wonderful Life
7. Undone
8. Wet Gravity
9. Empty Friend
10. Small Crimes

Fantastic Planet

1. Saturday Saviour
2. Sergeant Politeness
3. Segue 1
4. Smoking Umbrellas
5. Pillowhead
6. Blank
7. Segue 2
8. Dirty Blue Balloons
9. Solaris
10. Pitiful
11. Leo
12. Segue 3
13. The Nurse Who Loved Me
14. Another Space Song
15. Stuck On You
16. Heliotropic
17. Daylight

Outtakes (not listed in sequence):

Petting the Carpet
You’re Too Much *
Gone
Lunch *
Pennies *
Rat Sack *
Wake Up
Count My Eyes *
Comfort *
Solaris 2014

* – Previously unreleased

Failure Tour Dates:

7/9 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall (Comfort)
7/10 – Chicago, IL -Thalia Hall (Magnified)
7/11 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall (Fantastic Planet)
7/16 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echoplex (Comfort)
7/17 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echoplex (Magnified)
7/18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echoplex (Fantastic Planet)
7/23 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom (Comfort)
7/24 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom (Magnified)
7/25 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom (Fantastic Planet)

photo credit: Raymond Flotat