Failure returns with a new album and are celebrating with a hometown show. The Los Angeles-based band is set to host an album release show at Zebulon on Tuesday, April 21st.

Beloved and influential LA trio Failure – Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards, and Kelli Scott – announce Location Lost, their seventh studio album and fourth since reuniting in 2014 after a 17-year-hiatus, along with a spring North American tour. The LP features nine new tracks that showcase a focused, modern and ever-evolving vision of Failure’s utterly unique sound, led by first single “The Air’s on Fire.” Location Lost will arrive April 24th as the first release under Failure Records/Arduous Records/Virgin Music Group.

Recorded after the completion of the recent Hulu/Disney+ documentary Every Time You Lose Your Mind, Location Lost doesn’t arrive as a victory lap or a nostalgia exercise. Instead, it sounds like a band actively negotiating where — and who — they are now. “It’s very different,” Edwards says plainly of the follow-up to 2021’s Wild Type Droid. “There are sounds and parts that really don’t have any precedence within the Failure world.”

“The Air’s on Fire” embodies this sense of disorienting unfamiliarity. Almost immediately after finishing editing the documentary, Andrews suffered a serious back injury that required surgery. The operation was technically successful; the recovery was not. The single is the album’s most literal confrontation with Andrews’ medical trauma, its oppressive atmospherics and crushing bottom end mirroring his struggle to breathe on his own. “That song is directly about my surgery and waking up,” he explains. “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.”

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.

How To Get Failure Album Release Show At Zebulon Tickets

Tickets for Failure’s album release show at Zebulon on Tuesday, April 21st can be found here. Tickets start at $46.61.