Incubus‘ Brandon Boyd has shared a promising replace on the band’s subsequent album – see what he needed to say beneath.
Chatting with Flux FM and transcribed by The PRP, Boyd spoke concerning the band’s subsequent file, which is able to mark their first in eight years since 2017’s ‘8’. Whereas the band have but to formally announce the album, Boyd has revealed that the file was accomplished earlier this yr.
Boyd shared: “We really completed the album, I assume about, a little bit over two months in the past. And it’s like mastered, it’s blended, it’s simply able to go. The unhappy half about ending the album nowadays is that, as a lot as I wish to simply put it out; I’d like to put it out tomorrow, and we may put it out tomorrow, however it could get simply misplaced within the shuffle of the web, you understand what I imply?”
As for when the album’s going to be launched, he had this to say: “We’re gonna do like setup work for it and it’s in all probability gonna come out in October. So there can be a single that’ll come out earlier than October, in all probability within the subsequent few months, there’ll be a single. …Even with all the setup that we’re gonna do, it most certainly will nonetheless get misplaced within the web [laughs]. As a result of it’s the web.”
Boyd stated of the album and its recording course of: “I feel it’s a extremely nice file, and I’m actually pleased with it, and all of us within the band are actually pleased with it. We had a beautiful time recording it.”
The album additionally marks their first with new bassist Nicole Row, who Boyd says has “turn into a really quick asset to the band”. When it comes to her involvement, the frontman additionally confirmed that they wrote the album along with her and that Row “has superb concepts” and is “a breath of recent air”.
Their longtime bassist Ben Kenney stepped away from the band in 2023 after present process surgical procedure for a mind tumour, which left him completely deaf in a single yr and partially paralysed in his face. He has since launched his debut solo album ‘Highly effective Buttcheeks’ earlier this month.
Subsequent month, Incubus will host a present on the O2 in London, the place they’ll carry out their seminal 2001 album ‘Morning View’ in its entirety, together with different hits from all through their profession. After that, they’ll take the identical present to Cologne on April 30. The gigs are set to be their “solely UK and Eire efficiency” of this yr. Go to right here for remaining tickets.
The reveals had been introduced after Brandon Boyd spoke to NME in 2021 concerning the twentieth anniversary of the album, which spawned the hit singles ‘Good To Know You’, ‘Are You In?’ and ‘Want You Had been Right here’. Through the interview, he shared that there could possibly be extra leftover materials from that period to return from the vaults.
“There’s numerous materials and we’d mud a few of it off sooner or later,” he stated. “Typically outdated concepts or demos discover their manner into again into our type of collective band consciousness and we’ll mud them off and rearrange them they usually turn into new songs.”
