Failure - Fantastic Planet

I miss having Failure's 3rd album, Fantastic Planet, on my shelf. It's a wonderful album, no matter what Dean Carlson says. You could condense his entire review down to "Simpson's did it. Nirvana's better, and Failure doesn't write catchy songs." Sure, think that if you want, but it's dumb and you're an incomplete human being with a limited mental toolbox, Dean. I'm sure you're a mostly wonderful person like most people, but if we were having a conversation i'd probably tell you to go away. 

We're riding the chemtrails of Tool, and Tool was a big supporter of Failure, bringing them on tour. APC even covered The Nurse Who Loved Me. Wait, i did too, that's hiding somewhere in Mopey Time if you know where to look, wink. The point of the Tool discography was the fact that the discography itself was structured around the content (intentional or not). The cool thing about Fantastic Planet is that they structured an unstructured album. The songs are all over the place thematically, but they are arranged as 2-segue-3-seque-4-segue-5. Plus, it's cyclic (or possibly orbital), the same music-box sample begins and ends the album.

Technically, this is space rock, exploring "other worldly musical textures," and it totally connects with my mental image of old hack, pulp sci-fi. Losers in space. This is as much like Nirvana as Bush, which is to say, not. That's a false comparison from an extremely naive type of listening, the old familiar Industrial equals NIN problem: we'll just gloss over that annoying 20+ year history and compare the sound of the singers' voices, 'cause i'm lazy.

But, man i love this album.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mf5CVy35rXraviBKgh8Of9qv3PICfx_eY

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