In the ten years since Siltbreeze released Pink Reason’s Cleaning the Mirror, Kevin Failure’s subsequent releases have been concise, individual statements, together charting an atlas of depression and the struggles with a darkness that threaten to swallow him up every day. Compressed into Failure’s five- and six-minute songs are weeks, months and years of labor and experience, not the least of which are his travels to places where he catalyzed and received underground energies—from Wisconsin and Ohio, through Melbourne and Santiago de Chile, to New York City. Try to map out how these songs are put together, and one finds that the apparent simplicity of Failure’s riffs and chord progressions gives way to an epic complexity. Now that the dust is settling and the commercial concerns of a thousand “lo-fi” projects have vacated the underground for a better life in the dorm rooms of America, the influence of Pink Reason on the past decade is clear.
2012
Disordered Records
7", Single, Ltd
2012
2011
Siltbreeze
LP
2010
2009
Stained Circles, Fifth Column (3)
7"
2009
Die Stasi
7", Spl
2008
Columbus Discount Records
7", Single, Ltd, Pin
2008
Floridas Dying
12"
2008
2008
2007
Trick Knee Productions
7", Ltd
2007
2006
Savage Quality Recordings
CDr, EP
2013
Yellow Moon Records (3)
Cass, Album, Ltd
2011
Not On Label (Bois D'Arcy (Atelier) Self-released)
CDr
2019
Liquid Electric Recordings
Cass, Album, Comp, Mono
2018
Liquid Electric Recordings
Cass, Album, Comp, Mono
2010
Negative Guest List Records
CDr, Comp, + Z
2009
Aarght! Records, Stained Circles
CD, Comp
2009
2007
DevilMusic Music
CD, Comp
2013
Not On Label (Parquet Courts Self-released)
Cass, Comp, Ltd, Unofficial, Ora
2013
Not On Label (Parquet Courts Self-released)
CDr, Comp, Ltd, Unofficial
2011
Golden Lab Records
Cass, Album, Ltd, P/Unofficial
2009
Senzei Records
Cass, Ltd, P/Unofficial
2008
Natural Resources (2)
Cass, Album, Ltd, P/Unofficial
2006
Savage Quality Recordings
CDr, EP, Comp, Ltd, P/Unofficial
Sunshine & Grease
Cass, Album, P/Unofficial
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