“I wasn’t feeling much of anything by the time it was released.” Failure’s brilliant third album Fantastic Planet should have made them superstars. Instead, it broke their hearts and split the band

Failure’s third album, Fantastic Planet, was released in summer 1996 as an ambitious, self-produced alternative-rock record, but its path to release was damaged by uncertainty at the band’s label. Although it was expected to be a breakthrough, it did not enter the Billboard Top 200, and the disappoi