Music Capsule Review

Incubus (2004)

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Release Date: Feb 03, 2004; Lead Performance: Incubus

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By David Browne

David Browne

David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)

Incubus' last record, 2001's expansive ''Morning View,'' showed promise, especially in the stunted nu-metal genre. But it's hard to decide what's worse about its follow-up: (a) singer Brandon Boyd's puerile, uninsightful rants against materialism, world disorder, and shallow celebrity culture; (b) his language in said rants, which suggests he took lessons in garbled lyric writing from Alanis Morissette (''On the tip of my tongue/An offensive is poised and rearing''?); or (c) the tuneless, torturously knotty prog-metal the band cranks out behind him. Come to think of it, the album title's not so hot either.

Posted Feb 13, 2004

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