Failure Documentary Heading To Hulu
The Failure documentary Every Time You Lose Your Mind will enjoy wide release June 27 through Hulu and Hulu on Disney+. The night before, the influential trio will play a rare acoustic set before a screening at the Harmony Gold Theater in Los Angeles.
Every Time You Lose Your Mind was directed by frontman Ken Andrews and includes interviews with actors David Dastmalchian and Margaret Cho, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Jason Schwartzman, Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee, Tool’s Maynard James Keenan and producer Butch Vig.
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“Our fans have connected with the themes of depression and addiction in our music,” says Andrews, who reunited in 2014 with bandmates Greg Edwards and Kellii Scott after a 17-year hiatus. “The film crystallizes those connections and, ultimately, communicates hope. We’re a band that faced a specific set of challenges and somehow managed to survive and thrive. It’s a story about resilience, finding ways to cope, and not giving up.”
Failure debuted in 1992 with the abrasive alt-metal dirge Comfort (Steve Albini produced; the band never cared for it) and found a fuller, bolder Helmet-with-slightly-more-empathy lane on Magnified two years later. But 1996’s Fantastic Planet is the almighty jam — a 17-track beast (track 12: “Segue 3”; track 14: “Another Space Song”) of guitar-antihero theatrics and studio-as-instrument bummer luxury. It didn’t exactly top the charts, but everyone who heard it bought a phaser or 12. They performed on the final, original edition of Lollapalooza in 1997 but broke up soon thereafter due to personal and drug-related issues.
“At the time, we knew that our music was something maybe people didn’t really get the first listen,” Andrews told SPIN before the 2014 reunion. “We found that criticism to be accurate, but also frustrating, because people in the business were using it as an excuse for why we weren’t selling more records or something. ‘It’s great to have depth, but sometimes you can have too much depth’ — I remember that being said by someone. We didn’t know how to internalize that criticism and change anything we were doing. We just did what we liked. In that sense, I feel somewhat vindicated, that people are getting it now. That was maybe the other thing: all the years that have gone by, maybe that’s helped people appreciate it more.”
Failure’s only other performances this year will be Sept. 20 at Louder Than Life in Louisville, Ky., and Oct. 3 at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento, Ca.
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