Failure announce new album ‘Wild Type Droid’

November 23, 2021 Tasha Brown

FAILURE have announced a new album!

Titled Wild Type Droid, this will be the LA rock trio’s sixth studio album and is scheduled to be released in December this year, via Failure Music.

Speaking about the follow up to 2018’s In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind, vocalist/guitarist/bassist/programmer Ken Andrews says, “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 centre stage.”

The band also released a preview of the ten-song collection with the single Headstand. Talking about the song, co-vocalist/guitarist/bassist/keys Greg Edwards explains; “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.”

Listen to Headstand here:

Commenting about the artwork which was designed by American visual artist Beeple, Greg says, “this feels like a good place and time to abandon the space iconography and theme once and for all. In a lot of ways, this album feels like a return to earth. All minds have been called back to their bodies. There’s a lot to attend to right in front of us.”. You can check out the track listing and the album artwork below:

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