When I heard that Incubus was slated to be the opening act for
\nBlack Sabbath, I have to admit that I finally became curious in
\nthis band I had never heard before. What kind of music style were
\nthey, and how would they fit with the “gloom-and-doom” style that
\ntheir tourmates had embodied?<\/p>\n
After one listen to their 1997 debut
\nS.C.I.E.N.C.E.<\/i>, the answers weren’t terribly clear, but one
\nthing was – this was a decent album that might be unfairly called a
\nKorn clone (something it is anything but). Brandon Boyd and crew
\ntake the listener on a very interesting (and sometimes too
\nself-indulgent) trip.<\/p>\n
The band — vocalist\/percussionist Boyd, guitarist Mike
\nEinziger, bassist Alex Katunich, drummer Jose Pasillas and DJ
\nKilmore — do have a funk\/metal style similar to that of Korn, but
\nunlike their labelmates, Incubus have a style and a groove all
\ntheir own. There seems to be more of a tongue-in-cheek sense of
\nhumor laced into their music (“I dreamt I went potty, then woke up
\ndrenched in me” — from “Calgone”). Plus, Incubus seem to have a
\nhealthy respect for all the forms of music whose influence they
\ndraw upon – no knock against Korn intended.<\/p>\n
It takes a few minutes for the audio whiplash to set in and
\nallow you to really appreciate what is blaring through your
\nspeakers. Tracks like “Idiot Box,” “Glass,” “Summer Romance
\n(Anti-Gravity Love Song)” and “A Certain Shade Of Green” are both
\nintense experiences as well as fun tracks to listen to. And, if
\nanything is going to win over the crowds who go to the shows to see
\nBlack Sabbath, it’s going to be the notion that Incubus is really
\nhaving fun with the music they’re creating.<\/p>\n
\nS.C.I.E.N.C.E.<\/i> is also interesting in that the album never
\nseems to lag – that is, until you get to the “hidden” track just a
\nfew seconds after “Calgone” – over ten minutes of anything and
\neverything you could imagine in a song, from recitation of what
\nsounds like an autopsy to the sound of an arcade machine (video or
\npinball, I couldn’t tell — anyone wanna enlighten me?) to
\noff-the-cuff remarks from people. While there are moments that this
\nis interesting, after a while, you almost wish for the end to come
\n— plus, I’ve never seen the sense behind these “bonus” tracks.<\/p>\n
But for the most part, Incubus succeeds on all levels with
\nS.C.I.E.N.C.E.<\/i> – and it makes me wonder why we haven’t heard
\nmore from this band in the nearly two years since this album was
\nfirst released. It’s got the potential, but has anyone given it a
\nfair chance, or have people written it off due to the weird cover?
\n(Okay, I have to ask: Who
\n
\nis<\/i>
\n<\/b> that on the cover? Looks like Mark Spitz to me, but I’m no
\nexpert.)<\/p>\n
\nS.C.I.E.N.C.E.<\/i> is a definite candidate for an album that
\nunfairly slipped through the cracks. Hopefully their stint on the
\nBlack Sabbath tour will spark some interest in them – and build
\nthem a seriously big fan base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6079],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-36171","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-incubus","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36171"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36171"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}