{"id":550821,"date":"2026-03-21T08:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:43:15","slug":"failure-unveil-grungy-gothic-new-single-a-way-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550821\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure Unveil Grungy Gothic New Single &#8220;A Way Down&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/failure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Failure<\/a> have unveiled the new song \u201cA Way Down\u201d as the second single from their upcoming seventh album, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/02\/failure-new-album-2026-tour-single-the-airs-on-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Location Lost<\/a>, set for release on April 24th. The track follows lead single \u201cThe Air\u2019s On Fire,\u201d which was named our <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/02\/heavy-song-of-the-week-failure-the-airs-on-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Heavy Song of the Week<\/a> upon its release in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Way Down\u201d turns away from the late-period Rush atmospherics of their previous single, instead focusing on a dour and gothic atmosphere halfway between classic goth rock and grunge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:failure*new-song-button\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Ffailure-tickets%2Fperformer%2F737669\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get Failure Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vocalist Ken Andrews takes on a Kurt Cobain-like drawl against Radiohead-adjacent art rock ambience in an emotionally powerful showing. It also furthers the band\u2019s increasing distance from the space rock imagery that typified so much of their early career.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>About the song, Andrews said, \u201cMusically speaking, \u2018A Way Down\u2019 is an homage to two bands who actually got me to pick up the guitar and try to write my own music: The Cure and Siouxsie &amp; The Banshees, specifically their early 80s periods with albums like Juju and Pornography.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The track continues the group\u2019s expansion of Failure\u2019s sound, showing an intriguing creative restlessness at a point in their career where other bands might play it safe.<\/p>\n<p>Failure previously announced a spring North American <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/02\/failure-new-album-2026-tour-single-the-airs-on-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">headlining tour<\/a> in support of\u00a0Location Lost. Tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:failure*new-song\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Ffailure-tickets%2Fperformer%2F737669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">available here<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Failure have unveiled the new song \u201cA Way Down\u201d as the second single from their upcoming seventh album,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-550821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}