The Underground Stage
“Failsafe make a big and confident grunge-y noise without descending into pomposity or plodding, always remembering to bring just enough pop to add some sparkle to the sear.” Gallery Listen
“Failsafe’s fearsome technical ability explodes from a bag of truly noisy fun, like Superchunk featuring Slash. At its core it’s a fluid bag of lo-fi daftness, filtered through a layer of grungy volume before it surfaces with shiny, glinting edges. Volcanically good fun.” Gallery Listen
“Failsafe are all Kevlar and concrete, bulletproof and bombproof in their solidity, grunge and noisy heft on the edges with a steel core of good times at the heart of it. It’s hard not to be impressed, and it’s impossible not to get more than a little carried away.” Gallery Listen
“There are only three people in Failsafe but it sounds like a building collapsing on your head. The bass rumbles like an earthquake, the guitars slice with a jagged savagery, and the drums are played with what comes off like a serious grudge against the kit, which gets a wonderful but fearsome beating all set […]