Failure vocalist/guitarist Ken Andrews has newly remastered “Shifting Pores and skin“, the 2000 debut album from his facet undertaking On. You will discover that now by way of Bandcamp. As for revisiting this launch now, Andrews said on social media at this time, 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 pleasure and pleasure. Sitting there in my condo with no apparent route or objective was unsettling. Untethered from objective a deep despair started to settle in.
Each time I checked out my guitar all I may consider was Failure and the ache the tip 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 may 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 dwelling 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 in a position to create music that didn’t have an apparent connection to Failure’s sound.
My love for 80s Pop Music, just like the Vehicles, was streaming out of me effortlessly. I had discovered a approach 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. Ultimately I had a handful of demos that I began taking part in for buddies and that’s when my good friend Matt Marshall, Software’s A&R, heard my tape and signed me to Epic Information/Sony underneath the moniker ON. In 2000 my first post-Failure album was launched. I known as it Shifting Pores and skin as a result of that’s what it was for me. The type 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’ll be able to choose it up now on my Bandcamp web page at this time.”