| On May 3rd, Orange County’s FURY will release FAILED ENTERTAINMENT, their second full-length album and their first for Boston-based Run For Cover Records. Following early shows and the bedroom recordings that would become their demo tape, the band signed to tastemaker hardcore label Triple B Records. Since 2013 they've released multiple tapes, an EP, and their genre-pushing, critically acclaimed album Paramount. Failed Entertainment takes the band’s talent for soundtracking the human condition to a new, elevated plane. Failed Entertainment examines vast, philosophical inquiries throughout its eleven tracks. Rather than the short, intense bursts of energy that 2016’s Paramount delivered, songs here are given more space to contort in strange new shapes. Yet even as the band’s songs are more expansive than they’ve ever been, these questions are answered in hyperspecific, conversational narratives that often feel like stream-of-consciousness thoughts - statements are repeated, reworded, contradicted, dismissed, and reaffirmed all within moments. Harnessing this chaos and ferocity is at the center of the theme of Failed Entertainment, which is authenticity in every possible moment: to investigate grief devoid of melodrama, to urge political change off the soapbox, to examine everything in sight without grandiose diagnosis. |