If not now, when? (2011)/ Incubus [USA]

Fans van het eerste uur zijn door de leden zelf al netjes gewaarschuwd: Incubus is door de loop der jaren heel andere muziek gaan maken. Coldplay is een van de belangrijkste inspiratiebronnen geweest tijdens het ontstaansproces. "Seizing their extended half-decade hiatus as an opportunity to reinvent themselves, Incubus dive headfirst into a comfortable middle age on their seventh album. With the assistance of producer Brendan OBrien, theyve turned down the guitars and ratcheted up the synthesizers, trading roiling angst for occasional spells of moodiness, deciding to settle into a warm, textured adult pop that occasionally recalls nothing so much as Neil Finn at his spaciest. Theyre spry enough to sound convincing on the clatter of Switchblade, the guitars dont soothe so much as evoke desolate landscapes, vocalist Brandon Boyd still favors some unsettling lyrical imagery -- but the end result is an album on a shaded, comfortable grayscale." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic)

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