The Failure

One of the more influential alternative rock bands of the 1990s, Los Angeles' Failure rose to rock royalty alongside contemporaries like Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots, but employed a more textural sound that merged the exploratory guitar tones and production elements of space rock with the sinewy grunge trappings of the era. The group's deft songwriting and sparse yet riff-heavy and cinematic musical arrangements were lauded with near-universal critical praise upon the release of their second and third studio albums, Magnified (1994) and Fantastic Planet (1996)...