Seizing their extended half-decade hiatus as an opportunity to reinvent themselves, Incubus dive headfirst into a comfortable middle age on their seventh album, If Not Now, When? This is no crisis, this is deliberate: with the assistance of producer Brendan O’Brien, they’ve 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.
Incubus aren’t completely ready to become an AAA act -- they’re spry enough to sound convincing on the clatter of “Switchblade,” the guitars don’t 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, music that’s suitably mature yet sidesteps stultifying notions of middlebrow class.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Promises, PromisesBrandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Antonio Pasillas II, Incubus, Benjamin Kenney, Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Incubus | Play | 04:26 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | Friends and LoversBrandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Antonio Pasillas II, Incubus, Benjamin Kenney, Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Incubus | Play | 04:07 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | ThievesBrandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Antonio Pasillas II, Incubus, Benjamin Kenney, Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Incubus | Play | 04:17 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | IsadoreBrandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Antonio Pasillas II, Incubus, Benjamin Kenney, Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Incubus | Play | 04:35 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | The OriginalBrandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Antonio Pasillas II, Incubus, Benjamin Kenney, Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Incubus | Play | 05:05 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | DefianceBrandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Antonio Pasillas II, Incubus, Benjamin Kenney, Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Incubus | Play | 02:19 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | In the Company of WolvesBrandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Antonio Pasillas II, Incubus, Benjamin Kenney, Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Incubus | Play | 07:35 | 17 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | SwitchbladeBrandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Antonio Pasillas II, Incubus, Benjamin Kenney, Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Incubus | Play | 03:27 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 9 | AdolescentsBrandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Antonio Pasillas II, Incubus, Benjamin Kenney, Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Incubus | Play | 04:49 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 10 | Tomorrow's FoodBrandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Antonio Pasillas II, Incubus, Benjamin Kenney, Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Incubus | Play | 04:19 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 11 | If Not Now When | Incubus | Play | 05:05 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 50 mins | 114 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Ann Marie Simpson Orchestra | Strings |
| 2 | Billy Bowers | Assistant Engineer |
| 3 | Brandon Boyd | Art Direction, Composer, Group Member, Percussion |
| 4 | Greg DePante | Assistant Engineer |
| 5 | Michael Einziger | Assistant Engineer, Composer, Group Member, Guitar, Orchestration, Piano, String Arrangements, String Conductor |
| 6 | Brantley Gutierrez | Photography |
| 7 | Incubus | Composer, Primary Artist |
| 8 | Benjamin Kenney | Bass, Composer, Group Member |
| 9 | Chris "DJ" Kilmore | Composer, Group Member, Keyboards, Mellotron, Organ, Piano, Turntables |
| 10 | Paul Lamalfa | Assistant Engineer |
| 11 | George Marino | Mastering |
| 12 | Brendan O'Brien | Producer |
| 13 | Thierry Orbach | Cover Photo |
| 14 | Jose Antonio Pasillas II | Composer, Drums, Group Member |
| 15 | Lowell Reynolds | Assistant Engineer |
| 16 | Tom Syrowski | Engineer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |