The new Incubus album...

jamainiac · November 2006

I've had a chance now to give this album a few proper listens and I do like it... I think a lot of it will be fantastic live!!

*cringes*

I must confess I feel almost embarassed listening to 'Diamonds & Coal'...

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How did this track get on an album? Feels to me like listening to some kind of bastardized Collective Soul

I think my problem is that I've been listening to SCIENCE a lot lately and I love the whole 'beauty inside of chaos'... thing... compared to tracks on that album D&C seems like rechewed bubblegum :(

I'm totally stoked to see them again and I know this album will stay on my 'most played' list for some time to come

Cropduster84 · November 2006

facepollution wrote:

The hooks are more subtle, but they are still there.

I don't understand your beef with the production. To my mind Quicksand is supposed to sound kind of murky, and like someone else said it's more of an interlude into A Kiss to send us off. Are you still listening to the leaked version or the actual cd? The production on the cd, to my ears anyway, is as crisp and polished as I would expect from Brendan O' Brien.

Ive got it on cd, I just feel on some songs Brandons voice gets buried and its hard to pick out the bass, and Im a bassist lol. Light Grenades for example just sounds a mess to me.

At the same time Rogues, Dig and Anna Molly are spot on.

audiodave · November 2006

facepollution wrote:

The hooks are more subtle, but they are still there.

I don't understand your beef with the production. To my mind Quicksand is supposed to sound kind of murky, and like someone else said it's more of an interlude into A Kiss to send us off. Are you still listening to the leaked version or the actual cd? The production on the cd, to my ears anyway, is as crisp and polished as I would expect from Brendan O' Brien.

Once again, agreed. Quicksand sounds good as it is, "murky".

I have the leaked version, but it's fine production-wise.

The hooks are there for, and they are definitely more subtle.

For me, the standout tracks are Paper shoes (I love the intro and the harmonies in the verse), Pendulous Threads (Once again, the harmonies in are great) and (as much as people seem to hate it) Dig.

A Kiss To Send Us Off and Earth To Bella are definitely growers. I didn't used to like them, but I really like AKTSUO and I found myself singing Earth To Bella the other day, so I guess I must like it.

stateofloventrust12 · November 2006

aww man, this cd is great. dig is amazing.
i like rogues too

im a fan of all of incubus' stuff fungus to grenades.

walkthamile · November 2006

I just picked it up.

So far it sounds pretty good.

I like incubus...I have Morning View which I thought was pretty good...I also have A crow left of The Murder which I thought was a tad stronger than MV.

Light Grenades sounds pretty good...

To me they sound a little like a more beefed up version of Third Eye Blind...i mean that in the best possible way.

Dig sounds like a Third Eye Blind song...

DieasGrey · November 2006

The CD is great.
Are you guys that simple that you need to be bashed over the head with hooks.

Production is a little muddy. I think the bass is fine though. All in all better production than pj8

tremorvoid · November 2006

ohhh i think its damn good! i keep listening to it and it keeps growing on me!

i love songs #1-5 and i REALLY love song #10!! fuck yeah! great lyrics by brandon as well!

go buy this album...or this band if you like pj....incubus are influenced by pj and i can tell!! just listen to the evolution of that band...and they are still really young!

im pumped that i scored Agora tickets via their pre-sale! yeah me!

tremorvoid · November 2006

Azwethinkweiz wrote:

. 'Love Hurts' might be the only "bad" song on the record. It's just incredible cheesy. Still an okay song though.
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ironically....that song always makes me think my phone is ringing...it sounds just like the main riff in given to fly...which is my ringtone!

deadmosquito · November 2006

i just got it tonight. i've been writing a paper all evening (still writing ahhhhh) and i listened to it while i was working, so i didn't pay as much attention as i'd have liked to, but from what i heard it's pretty good. i was definitely thrown off by the first song, but as someone mentioned, it's basically an intro to the second one, and when that song started i felt a lot better. i don't find the production all that bad, but i'm not an audiophile, so that kinda stuff doesn't always jump out at me. except morning view, if ever there was a record that could have used some more time in mixing or some other post-production work, that was it. to me morning view seems so lacking in treble and bass. it's all just warbled in the middle ranges to me. but to each his own i guess.

loveboatcaptain_blak · November 2006

rogues is amaaazing! i really like dig and and earth to bella and LG too. i've heard alot of people not liking it but i think it ties with science as their second best behind morning view.

Jerzdevil · November 2006

Did anyone else notice the striking similarities between the chorus of "A Kiss To Send Us Off" and "World Wide Suicide"?

harmless_little_f*** · November 2006

Jerzdevil wrote:

Did anyone else notice the striking similarities between the chorus of "A Kiss To Send Us Off" and "World Wide Suicide"?

OMG you're right!

Azwethinkweiz · November 2006

yo peeps, rate all 6 albums!

1) Morning View
2) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
3) Make Yourself
4) Light Grenades
5) Fungus Amongus
6) A Crow Left of the Murder

bharQ · November 2006

Azwethinkweiz wrote:

yo peeps, rate all 6 albums!

1) Morning View
2) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
3) Make Yourself
4) Light Grenades
5) Fungus Amongus
6) A Crow Left of the Murder

1) Morning View - 7/10
2) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. - 9/10
3) Make Yourself - 8.5/10
4) Light Grenades - 1/10
5) Fungus Amongus - 8/10
6) A Crow Left of the Murder - 5/10

bharQ · November 2006

Enjoy Incubus - 8/10

DieasGrey · November 2006

To the folks negative to the porduction to quicksand and how it would be better with out o'brein doing it. Quicksand was recorded and mixed by Einziger.

Morning View 9.5/10
S.C.I.E.N.C.E 8.5 /10
Light Grenades 8 / 10
Make Yourself 7.5 / 10
Enjoy Incubus 7.1 /10
Fungus Amongus 7/10
A Crow Left of the Murder 6 /10

I think Light grenades is really good. progressions are very nice for me. Not as much guitar work as i would like however. A very coheisive Album.

7 Kettles · November 2006

bharQ wrote:

(Pow, ha!)
Imagine your brain as a canister filled with ink, yeah
now think of your body as the pen where the ink resides
use the two, kapow! what are you now?
you're the human magic marker
won't you please surprise my eyes?
it's in your nature, you can paint whatever picture you like
no matter what Ted Koppel says on channel 4 tonight
so modify this third rock from the sun
by painting myriads of pictures with the colors of the one

I'm sick of painting in black and white
my pen is dry, now I'm uptight
so sick of limiting myself
to fit your definition
I'm sick of painting in black and white
my pen is dry, now I'm uptight
so sick of limiting myself
to fit your definition

Picture the scene, where whatever you thought would
in the blink of an eye, manifest and become illustrated
you'd be sure man that every line drawn
reflected a life that you loved
not an existence that you hated
so must we demonstrate that we can't get it straight?
we've painted a picture, now we're drowning in paint
lets figure out what the fuck it's about
before the picture we painted chews us up and spits us out

I'm sick of painting in black and white
my pen is dry, now I'm uptight
so sick of limiting myself
to fit your definition
I'm sick of painting in black and white
my pen is dry, now I'm uptight
so sick of limiting myself
to fit your definition

Redefine
oooh yeah

I'm sick of painting in black and white
my pen is dry, now I'm uptight
so sick of limiting myself
to fit your definition

Must we demonstrate that we can't get it straight?
we've painted a picture, now we're drowning in paint
lets figure out what the fuck it's about
before the picture we painted chews us up and spits us out

Written by a 21 year old with a head full of psilocybin.. this is the stuff of theirs I love

brilliant stuff. love this song.

7 Kettles · November 2006

Fungus Amongus - 1/10

Enjoy! Incubus - 7.5/10

S.C.I.E.N.C.E - 9.5/10

Make Yourself - 8/10

Morning View - 7.75/10

A Crow Left of the Murder - 4.5/10

Light Grenades - 6/10 .......still growing on me.

Blind Melon · November 2006

Make Yourself - 10 / 10
Light Grenades - 9.5 / 10 (may get up there with Make Yourself)
Morning View - 8 / 10
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. - 8.5 / 10
Fungus Amongus - 7 / 10 (only because they were so young when they made it and the talent that's shown on this album is amazing)
A Crow Left of the Murder... - 9 / 10

decides2dream · November 2006

i'm not loving it. :(
i've listened to it a few times now, granted only in the car....need to give it a full listen start to finish, uninterrupted at home, but it simply isn't 'grabbing' me. now i will say, it IS growing on me...b/c i totally disliked it first listen, utterly disappointed, and now there's a few tracks i am liking more and more...but yea....thus far, no comparison to their other albums. as i said, i hope in time it grows more on me...and the fact i am seeing them live for the first time in january, hoping i may fall in love with em live....we'll see. i LOVE incubus, and i especially always love jose's drumming.....and i happen to LOVE the new bass player, he brings a LOT to the table imo...all great musicians to me....so yea.........i'll keep on listening...

The new Incubus album...

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