Location Lost is the seventh studio album by Los Angeles alternative rock trio Failure — Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards, and Kelli Scott — released on April 24, 2026 through Failure Records, Arduous Records, and Virgin Music Group. It is their fourth album since reuniting in 2014 after a 17-year hiatus, and follows 2021's Wild Type Droid by five years. The album's development was marked by a significant personal trial: Andrews suffered a back injury requiring surgery that, by his own account, produced a change in his brain chemistry — disabling the editorial side of his thinking and causing him to write a larger share of the lyrics by intuition alone. That psychological shift, counterintuitively, appears to have unlocked something new in the band's creative process. The album was also preceded by the 2025 Hulu/Disney+ documentary Every Time You Lose Your Mind, which chronicles the band's career and features a contribution from Hayley Williams of Paramore — who went on to collaborate on the album track "The Rising Skyline," a connection rooted in Paramore's 2006 cover of Failure's "Stuck on You."Across its nine tracks, Location Lost is the most spacious and mellow record in the band's post-reunion catalogue, combining their signature immersive space-rock with a noticeably dreamy, pop-leaning sensibility that Sputnikmusic called "downright uplifting by their usual standards" and awarded 4.5 out of 5. The opener "Crash Test Delayed" introduces the album on an ambient, electronic-inflected note before the heavier dynamics of "The Air's on Fire" and "A Way Down" — the latter described as a goth-influenced gem — provide contrast, while "Halo and Grain," "Someday Soon," and the title track are identified as the dreamlike emotional core of the record: wistful vocal melodies, trippy guitar effects, and busy bass lines balancing intricate rhythm work with an unhurried, headphone-rewarding quality. Heavy Blog Is Heavy called it "the most realized artistic statement the band has made since reforming" and suggested it rivals Fantastic Planet (1996) — widely regarded as their masterpiece — while New Noise Magazine described it as a record of a band "perfecting the immersive sound that is their stock in trade" after 36 years together.
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