allmusic still lists Failure's Fantastic Planet as merely a 2-star album

Yeah, I guess discussion on in an A Perfect Circle thread led me to believe that they were super popular here.

Anyway, I find that I'm warming to the album, but it still takes me a while to get through. Hot Traveler has been stuck in my head for the last few days though.

Mulholland Drive kinda trips me up in the middle. I don't need a Beatles/Beach Boys patische in the middle of a Failure record. It is no Nurse Who Loved Me either.

The rest of the album is holding up really well for me though.

fantastic planet is incredible.

the new one is okay, though i think it'd be better if it started four or five tracks later than it does (forget where). i like "mulholland drive" but it's maybe a little weird in context. cool to hear "i can hear houses" recorded finally but they either lost something in the studio or it's less than i'd imagined it to be based on the bootleg i heard years and years ago.

also, kinda lame to begin and end the record with "segues" imo, especially numbering them 4 through 9, as though this album were a literal sequel to FP. just underscores how this album's best only barely beats out that one's worst (though by pre-FP standards, however questionable those may be, it fares much better).

at this point i love the new record and my esteem for it only grows with each listen

prob my favorite rock album of the year

I keep coming beck to it as well.

Like, I listen to the whole thing every couple weeks, but I still don't feel like I've unlocked all its riches.

Never really dug into it past the advance tracks, need to get on that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzC8fyC4j_g

the eps they've been releasing this year have been phenomenal

and the new album is even better than the heart is a monster https://open.spotify.com/album/7xaaWnqHbVIJYBOFadtXKC?si=YEBBNhDfRpK8zXAueT4NCw

idk, simon, flappy, do you like this band? i feel like both of y'all could get down with this record

periodic update that a new failure album is coming out, wild type droid, december 3rd, both singles rule ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC8AQ7uWKk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWjQlQWcsI4

both previous failure albums were to the standard of fantastic planet and i still desperately need the ilm failure crew to reassemble

!!

fuck. yeah.

omg “bad translation”

this is all i've listened to today, it's phenomenal

idk what it is but I feel like I already know what every new Failure song is going to sound like before pressing play.

I'll definitely give the new one a shot. So far I simply don't hear any 2015-present Failure at the same level of dopeness as stuff like Smoking Umbrellas or Dirty Blue Balloons or Solaris.

not “counterfeit sky”? “what makes it easy”? “heavy and blind”? idk i think they picked up right where they left off and i never get tired of the sound

Looks like I posted on this thread 16 years ago (!) but I'm not sure I've thought about Failure since then.

Stuck On You still sounds good, even as a bedroom youtube acoustic cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMsdGChZRus

holy fuckin shit @ the last five tracks of this album

Damn I wish I could find a copy of In the Future...

the last four tracks of in the future... >>>>>>

guess i'm heading there next

Headed to Magnified next. Whoa! Moth is amaaaaazing

the whole opening run is amazing, Frogs being all weirdly epic and then Bernie sounding like Slint doing an alt-rock slammer

but Moth is like, something else

Just finally got a copy of In the Future, looks like I gotta track down Magnified next. Kicking myself now because I definitely remember that one popping up in the bins regularly in college, but I hadn't yet discovered the magnificence of Fantastic Planet and the cover always gave me "corny alt-rock also-ran" vibes so I never checked it out.

I've met lots of people who like Magnified the best.

"Undone" might be my #1.

Opening track of In The Future... is a Radioheadish 00s-indie song?

But a really, really good one lol

was revisiting the heart is a monster last week and i think i just have to admit it's my favorite failure album, the songs all slap and the dream concept is extremely my shit

One of those bands I feel slightly affronted to not have been informed of earlier