| Comfort | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Failure |
| Cover: | Failure-Comfort.jpg |
| Recorded: | June 1992 |
| Studio: | Pachyderm (Cannon Falls, Minnesota) |
| Genre: | Alternative metal[1] |
| Length: | 37:21 |
| Label: | Slash |
| Producer: | Failure, Steve Albini |
| Next Title: | Magnified |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Comfort is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Failure.[2] It was released in the United States on September 11, 1992,[3] and internationally in February 1993.[4] A version newly-remixed by Ken Andrews was released in 2020 as part of a box set containing Failure's first three albums.[5]
Billboard wrote that "slow and medium-tempo songs mate drones to screeching guitar work that could make it with grunge-loving modern rockers."[6] Trouser Press gave the album a mixed review, writing that "like most premature debuts, Comfort captures Failure, a young trio, learning how to make cool sounds together without benefit of worthwhile songs or an established personality."[7]
The Chicago Tribune noted that "even when the guitars are turned up to 11, production and arrangements on Comfort have a rather polite surgical precision and clarity." The Orlando Sentinel called Failure "an engrossing three-piece variant on the melody-meets-mayhem theme."
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