For those wondering about Incubus....

[Captain Beefheart]

I just got a copy of the new Incubus album on a CD-R my drummer made for me and after just one listening, whatt can I say?. It's more than I expected based on the single. I expected another album with a bunch of pop hits like Morning View, but there are really not many hits and much more experimental tracks. Brendan O'Brien produced it, so you defintely hear a Pearl Jam influence on the mix itself, very raw/live sound to it. A very surprising first entry in my TOP 10 of 2004 list.

The music itself sounds like a cross from the previous albums but a bit more "proggresive" in pretty much every sense, from arrangements, composition, dynamics, textures, chord voicings, lyrics.

Also, I read that the band recorded a 22 minute song called "Pantomime" that didn't make the final cut of the album...

From Feb 2004 issue of Guitar One:
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The combination of Kenney and O'Brien prompted Einziger, who cites Frank Zappa and Steve Vai as huge influences, to rediscover his experimental side. The culmintaion of that journey of rediscovery is an untitled, epic 22-minute odyssey. "It's very cinematic," Einziger says of the saga. "There's one section that's a really long improvised guitar solo, which is very Phish, very Trey Anastasio. And there's a long bass section in there too, as well as a long, drawn-out percussion section. The song just goes through all these different movements. It's really pretty cool."

A 22-minute track, though once almost commonplace in the rock scene, now goes against all conventional wisdom, given the short attention spans of today's listeners. As such, the song is not guaranteed to make the album. He says, "I might have more fun playing and recording the song than people do listening to it." But he believes there is an audience for the track, adding, "I think that fans of our earlier music will trip out on it." And he says that if it doesn't make the album, it will be heard someplace.

And also you can listen to another song that didn't make the album here called "Monuments and Melodies". The link might not be up for long.=

Here

I can see why that wasn't included. Nice "brush" playing by Pasillas, that's such a lost art, then again I've never heard a rock drummer play brushes besides Brian Blade in that "Come Away With Me" single by Norah Jones. That's soul jazz tho HA!

Anyways. Some great songs from the ACLOTM to check out...

"Sick Sad Little World" (epic song and great solo!)

"Pistola" (bridge section sounds like something from Rush song)

"Here in My Room" (a well written ballad type song)

"Priceless" (again, awesome solo section)

Review

[ February 05, 2004, 09:57 PM: Message edited by: Captain Beefheart ]

"Sick Sad..." and "Pistola" are some of my faves aswell. "Agrophobia" and "A Crow Left Of The Murder" are also good.