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Daring to be different

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The multi-platinum rock band Incubus are back with their sixth full-length studio album, If Not Now, When?

The five-member group from California are known for their diverse sound and fearlessness when it comes to their music.

It's been five years since their last studio release, Light Grenades, which charted at No1 on the Billboard 200 albums upon its debut in 2006. This time around the album is an 'unabashed, romantic, lush, sonic love letter to the world,' says lead vocalist Brandon Boyd.

'For many years now we have been searching for something different. Something unique, both to the world and to us as a band.'

With this album, Incubus hopes to achieve just that. At the early writing stages, the band already knew they were onto to something special and, more importantly, something new and fresh. Compared to their earlier albums, Boyd thinks this one is 'darker, slower, more rich, more refined, and more involved than anything Incubus has birthed to date'.

Yet the album is also a mixture of the past, present and future. The lead single Adolescents, which was the last song recorded, is perhaps the most familiar sounding of the bunch. It showcases the band's 'frenetic rock roots', and talks about the relative youth of humans and our culture in comparison to the earth. And how, even though Incubus has been around for more than a decade, there are parallels to a struggling adolescent.

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