Fantastic Planet is the third studio album by the rock band Failure, released on August 13, 1996 by Slash Records and Warner Bros. Records. It was the last album released by Slash Records before its acquisition by London Recordings in 1996. Fantastic Planet released 3 support Singles: Stuck on You, Pitiful and Saturday Savior.
The album was produced by Failure themselves, space rock themes are present in the lyrics, as well as several indirect references to drug addiction, drug-related experiences and prostitution. The album is cyclical, in that the chime sound effect that ends the final track Daylight begins the opening track Saturday Saviour, and was the start of a system of numerically designated sequences in studio work. from Failure, which would continue on subsequent albums.
Despite receiving critical acclaim, the album failed to chart on the Billboard 200, but it did produce a charting single with Stuck on You, which peaked at number 23 on Billboard‘s Alternative Songs chart. Seven of the album’s songs were also included on Failure’s Essentials, a collection of the best of 2006. Fantastic Planet would be Failure‘s last studio album for nineteen years until the release of The Heart Is a Monster (2015).
Tracklist:
- Saturday Saviour
- Sergeant Politeness
- Segue 1
- Smoking Umbrellas
- Pillowhead
- Blank
- Segue 2
- Dirty Blue Balloons
- Solaris
- Pitiful
- Leo
- Segue 3
- The Nurse Who Loved Me
- Another Space Song
- Stuck on You
- Heliotropic
- Daylight
Failure
Ken Andrews: vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar
Greg Edwards: electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, percussion
Kellii Scott: drums
Produced by Failure; engineered by Ken Andrews. Recorded at F.P.S. Studios (Los Angeles, CA) and Madhatter Studios (Silverlake, CA). Mastered by Tom Baker at Future Disc (Hollywood, CA).
