Comfort

Failure | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 1992)
• Label: Sire / London/Rhino
• ASIN: B00004T6VA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #585,530 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Submission

2. Macaque

3. Something

4. Screen Man

5. Swallow

6. Muffled Snaps

7. Kindred

8. Pro-Catastrophe

9. Princess

10. Salt Wound

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Few albums come close...., January 25, 2001

By 

Michael Heminger "pantherboy" (Pardeeville, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comfort (Audio CD)

Mixed reviews abound with this album. Some prefer the later material which has a much glossier production, and the songs really matured later as well. The charm of "Comfort" (Failure's debut elpee) is its rough edges, and the starkness works well here, particularly with the production work of Steve Albini. Songs take on drastic shifts in density and retain a brooding, ominous tone that crawls into a place in my brain that no other band can occupy. The dominant lyrical theme in Failure songs is a liminal space somewhere in between a drugged stupor and sleep. Ken Andrews' abstract musings sound soothing over the solid yet smooth walls of guitars, and songs take twists and turns into shadowy rooms you usually see only in dreams.

I stumbled on this album... and it instantly became the only album I listened to for months. At the time (1993), I could only compare them to a moodier Nirvana, but the exercises in tone shifts here lean back to early Pixies material with a Sabbathy heaviness and slightly gloomy undercurrent. Every song here is excellent, and the only shortcoming I can find would be Mr. Albini's annoying habit of burying the vocals underneath his otherwise brilliant mix. This is not throwaway material - many songs here were performed on Failure's last tour, and "Screen Man" in particular, is consistently mesmerizing. By the time the brash guitars and stuttering drums stumble to a close in "Salt Wound" you will know you have been on a unique journey and want more. (The opening cut on their next album, "Magnified" begins with the same guitar sound, as if picking up where they left off...)

I never thought I would be saying this, but you should own (or at least hear) this album. It operates on multiple levels and has turned many of my friends with different musical tastes into instant Failure fans....

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the epitamy of rock dissonance, October 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Comfort (Audio CD)

I really believe Ken Andrews is a rock music prodigy. Comfort and for that matter all the Failure albums , and his new group Year of the Rabbit combine all that is edgy and creative in the rock and alternative genre.This album takes the best elements of groups such as Tool, Nirvana,Foo-fighters,and I believe even Rush to a degree,and make a tight harder rock that is dissonant but also highly melodic.Ken and Greg have made superior music on this album as well as Magnified from 1994 and Fantastic Planet in 1996.As a cd collector with close to 3500 cds in my collection and 30 years of music buying starting at age 14, I believe that I have alot of very great music but this album ranks at the top.If you don't own the other Failure albums get all of them and Year of the Rabbit.The Replicants cover album from 1995 is great too(also Ken Andrews ).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Origin of Failure is not a Failure, December 7, 2005

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Wolfdog - See all my reviews

This review is from: Comfort (Audio CD)

I finally had a chance to listen to their very first album and was not the least bit surprised of it. Truly remarkable. Even a deeper, garage type sound that Magnified; Kens guitar riffs and sounds will put your mind in total bliss. Macaque is one song that stands out in my opinion on this album for its slow, waivering sound and easy lyrics.

If you loved Magnified, this is a definet for the collection.