"I wasn't feeling much of anything by the time it was released." Failure's brilliant third album Fantastic Planet should have made them superstars. Instead, it broke their hearts and split the band

Failure.

In the summer of 1996, Los Angeles alt-rock trio Failure released Fantastic Planet.

Named after René Laloux’s stop-motion sci-fi film, their third studio album was epic in both scope and ambition. With a running time of almost 68 minutes, the seeds of their self-produced 17-track effort were sewn in a rented house in Tujunga, just outside of Los Angeles – owned by Lita Ford, no less.