

To hear them is to picture waves breaking on a California shoreline – some brashly, some gently, but all beautifully. Circles and Just A Phase, for example, display a proggy, unhurried mastery of dynamics. T wenty two years ago, California surf hippies Incubus were hurtling towards multi-platinum status on the back of Drive, an acoustic road-trip anthem which found its way into the US Top 10 and. Boasting, though it does, some of the band’s most famous and successful songs (Wish You Were Here, Are You In?), it’s in the deeper cuts that the gold really lays. Even more than that, though, is how boldly the band express themselves from their newly elevated platform, blending genres like an artist mixes paints on their palette. What makes Morning View so special? Its combination of great songs and peerless musicianship shot through with a tangible sense of where it was made certainly helps. No I whispered, feeling myself begin to hyperventilate. I lost sight of them as they turned into the infirmary. My breath got stuck in my chest and I couldn’t move a muscle. Instead the band decamped to a beautiful house in Malibu for six months, got some sun and jammed – a group of friends just hanging out and making a masterpiece. I stopped in shock, watching Papa’s back as he kept moving. Its members consist of Brandon Boyd, Mike Einziger, José Pasillas, Chris Kilmore, and Ben Kenney. Having achieved mainstream success with Make Yourself, it would have been easy for Incubus to dole out more of the same for its follow-up. incubus is a music group from the United States that won a Grammy Award nomination.
