Incubus‘ Brandon Boyd has shared a promising replace on the band’s subsequent album – see what he needed to say beneath.
Talking to Flux FM and transcribed by The PRP, Boyd spoke concerning the band’s subsequent document, which can 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 document was accomplished earlier this 12 months.
Boyd shared: “We really completed the album, I assume about, slightly 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 this present day is that, as a lot as I want to simply put it out; I’d like to put it out tomorrow, and we may put it out tomorrow, however it might get simply misplaced within the shuffle of the web, you realize 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 most likely gonna come out in October. So there can be a single that’ll come out earlier than October, most likely within the subsequent few months, there’ll be a single. …Even with all the setup that we’re gonna do, it almost definitely 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 very nice document, and I’m actually pleased with it, and all of us within the band are actually pleased with it. We had an exquisite time recording it.”
The album additionally marks their first with new bassist Nicole Row, who Boyd says has “change into a really quick asset to the band”. By way of her involvement, the frontman additionally confirmed that they wrote the album along with her and that Row “has wonderful 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 12 months 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 12 months. Go to right here for remaining tickets.
The exhibits have 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 Have been Right here’. Throughout the interview, he shared that there might be extra leftover materials from that period to come back from the vaults.
“There’s quite a lot of materials and we would mud a few of it off sooner or later,” he stated. “Typically previous concepts or demos discover their approach into again into our kind of collective band consciousness and we’ll mud them off and rearrange them they usually change into new songs.”
