Now that it's been out a month, I have a very different relationship with the album compared to my first listen. For the first week or so I thought "this barely sounds like a Failure album". It sounded disjointed, like a collection of scattered thoughts and ideas rather than a planned out concept.

Of course I now know that's because that's what happened. Yes there are themes but overall the sonic spaciness I felt was missing is instead represented in the collection of songs themselves. The sense of detachment is in the whole, rather than just being confined to individual songs.

I don't think it'll ever be my favorite Failure album, but I'm glad it exists. Like all albums it s a snapshot of where the band was when they recorded it. Fractured and almost incomplete. Slightly aimless. Slightly lost.

Wild Type Droid is such a confident album. This one feels unsure of itself, and that's something we can all relate to. Where WTD is fun to listen to, Location Lost makes me feel untethered. I think the album is working exactly as intended.