Failure vocalist/guitarist Ken Andrews has newly remastered “Shifting Pores and skin“, the 2000 debut album from his aspect challenge On. You could find that now by way of Bandcamp. As for revisiting this launch now, Andrews acknowledged on social media at present, December 06th:
“After Failure disbanded in 1997 I used to be utterly misplaced. I had put each ounce of creativity and energy I had into my delight and pleasure. Sitting there in my condominium with no apparent route or purpose was unsettling. Untethered from goal a deep despair started to settle in.
Each time I checked out my guitar all I might consider was Failure and the ache the top had introduced. That’s once I determined to go to the music retailer close to me, West LA Music/Common Metropolis, and see if a brand new guitar or pedal may perk me up and encourage one thing. Taking a look at all of the guitars, all I might hear was Failure.
I used to be about to depart once I noticed a small desktop sized synthesizer that was inside my funds. I ended up coming house with my very first synthesizer, the Entry Virus. That little synth packed an enormous quantity of sounds and I used to be hooked. Impulsively I used to be capable of create music that didn’t have an apparent connection to Failure’s sound.
My love for 80s Pop Music, just like the Automobiles, was streaming out of me effortlessly. I had discovered a means again into music making that felt therapeutic and joyful. I used to be additionally writing songs that emotionally have been much less darkish and even playful in comparison with Failure. I knew some followers of Failure would most likely not be into this new route I used to be following, however I didn’t care.
I wanted to do that for myself. Finally I had a handful of demos that I began taking part in for mates and that’s when my pal Matt Marshall, Device’s A&R, heard my tape and signed me to Epic Data/Sony below the moniker ON. In 2000 my first post-Failure album was launched. I referred to as it Shifting Pores and skin as a result of that’s what it was for me. The fashion and sound was a particular shift, however the underlying soul, I hoped, was nonetheless intact.
I not too long ago positioned the unique mixes and have remastered Shifting Pores and skin in 24bit/48k. You may decide it up now on my Bandcamp web page at present.”