Comfort (Failure album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Comfort
| type = studio
| artist = Failure
| cover = Failure-Comfort.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1992|09|11}}
| recorded = June 1992
| venue =
| studio = Pachyderm (Cannon Falls, Minnesota)
| genre = Alternative metal{{cite web|last=Harvilla|first=Rob|date=November 4, 2013|title=Exclusive: Failure Announce L.A. Reunion Show, Threaten More|url=https://www.spin.com/2013/11/failure-reunion-show-fantastic-planet/|access-date=October 16, 2020|website=Spin}}
| length = 37:21
| label = Slash
| producer = Failure, Steve Albini
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Magnified
| next_year = 1994
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Comfort
| type = studio
| single1 = Pro-Catastrophe
| single1date = 1991
}}
}}
Comfort is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Failure.{{cite web|last=Chelin|first=Pamela|date=February 14, 2014|title=Failure Shake Off 16 Years of Rust With Ease at L.A. Reunion Gig|url=https://www.spin.com/2014/02/galleryfailure-reuion-el-rey-theatre-photos/|website=Spin}} It was released in the United States on September 11, 1992,{{Cite news |last=Anon. |date=September 9, 1992 |title=Season Ticket: Recordings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/100134097 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |type=Season Ticket |page=8 |url-access=subscription |via=newspapers.com}} and internationally in February 1993.{{Cite magazine |last=Morris |first=Chris |date=December 19, 1992 |title=Artist Developments |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1992/Billboard-1992-12-19.pdf |magazine=Billboard |volume=104 |issue=51 |page=16 |via=worldradiohistory.com}} A version newly-remixed by Ken Andrews was released in 2020 as part of a box set containing Failure's first three albums.{{cite magazine|last=Kreps|first=Daniel|date=December 16, 2019|title=Failure Celebrate First Three Albums With Live Residencies, Box Set|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/failure-residency-box-set-comfort-magnified-fantastic-planet-927816/|magazine=Rolling Stone}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web|last=Jeffries|first=Vincent|title=Comfort - Failure|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/comfort-mw0000088054|publisher=AllMusic}}
| rev2 = Chicago Tribune
| rev2score = {{rating|3|4}}{{cite news |last1=Rothschild |first1=David |title=Rave recordings |work=Chicago Tribune |date=19 Nov 1992 |department=Tempo |page=7}}
| rev3 = Kerrang!
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Mörat |first= |date=March 20, 1993 |title=Rekordz |magazine=Kerrang! |publisher=EMAP |issue=435 |page=21}}
| rev4 = Orlando Sentinel
| rev4score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite news |last1=Gettelman |first1=Parry |title=Failure, Comfort |work=Orlando Sentinel |date=4 Dec 1992 |location=Calendar |page=6}}
| rev5 = Select
| rev5score = {{rating|2|5|full=U+25A0.svg|empty=U+25A1.svg|rating=medal}}{{cite magazine |url=http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2013/03/albums22.jpg |title=Failure: Comfort |date=April 1993 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230731222431/http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2013/03/albums22.jpg |archive-date=31 July 2023|access-date=7 September 2024 |magazine= Select |page=74 |last=Perry|first=Andrew}}
}}
Billboard wrote that "slow and medium-tempo songs mate drones to screeching guitar work that could make it with grunge-loving modern rockers."{{cite magazine|last=|first=|date=October 17, 1992|title=Album Reviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EBIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA57|magazine=Billboard|page=57|via=Google Books}} Trouser Press gave the album a mixed review, writing that "like most premature debuts, Comfort captures Failure, a young trio, learning how to make cool sounds together without benefit of worthwhile songs or an established personality."{{cite web|last=Robbins|first=Ira|title=Failure|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/failure/|access-date=1 August 2020|website=Trouser Press}}
The Chicago Tribune noted that "even when the guitars are turned up to 11, production and arrangements on Comfort have a rather polite surgical precision and clarity." The Orlando Sentinel called Failure "an engrossing three-piece variant on the melody-meets-mayhem theme."
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Ken Andrews
| title1 = Submission
| length1 = 3:23
| title2 = Macaque
| length2 = 4:59
| title3 = Something
| length3 = 2:53
| title4 = Screen Man
| length4 = 6:15
| title5 = Swallow
| length5 = 2:31
| title6 = Muffled Snaps
| length6 = 3:55
| title7 = Kindred
| length7 = 2:21
| title8 = Pro-Catastrophe
| length8 = 3:09
| title9 = Princess
| length9 = 1:21
| title10 = Salt Wound
| length10 = 6:34
|total_length = 37:21
}}
Personnel
Failure
- Ken Andrews – vocals, guitar
- Greg Edwards – bass
- Robert Gauss – drums
Technical
- Steve Albini – production
References
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Category:Failure (band) albums