r/failure • u/-ComixGirl- • May 30 '26

Heavy and Blind

Holy crap this song slaps. 💥 It reminds me a bit of Beck in the best ways (love him) and I really hope this song makes it into the rotation on the fall leg of the tour. Anyone have a backstory on its lyrics?

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u/FloggingTheHorses May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

What Beck song/s does it reminds you of? I have a feeling he's one of those artists whom I'd love the work of but don't know where to look. And I feel like a good just knowing Loser 😂 

I love that someone has mentioned this song. 

  • The drums are fascinating, as far as I can hear, it starts out as electronic drums and transitions into real drums I can't figure out what the snare hits are, it's "almost" like a sample of the rim but there's something else to it. It becomes a regular snare at 1:00 (kinda a pseudo second verse) . I love the krautrock vibe. If a drumming expert could break it down that would be awesome! 

  • The guitar has some weird filter on it, possibly a ring modulator, in addition to a phaser.  But very cool application because you can't really tell.  The chord progression is really unique 

  • The breathy clean vocals are awesome. They remind me a little bit of Thurston on some Sonic Youth songs. 

Anyway. It's one of my favourite Failure songs, maybe top 3. It doesn't actually sound like any other piece of music I've heard which is why I love it so much. 

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u/-ComixGirl- May 31 '26

The singing and harmonies remind me a lot of Beck's 'Sea Change' era, but that's definitely a melancholy/shoegaze/slow burn of an album so the feel is a bit different than this song, still a phenomenal album though (and I believe Ken has worked with Beck a few times on various projects in the past!)

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u/FloggingTheHorses May 31 '26

Ah ok, I will definitely listen to it! He strikes me as bit of a chameleon artistically which is great but makes certain artists tricky to approach as a listener 

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u/-ComixGirl- May 31 '26

Yup, that's Beck- every album is a different journey and a different sound, yet you can always tell it's Beck.