Incubus‘ Brandon Boyd has shared a promising update on the band’s next album – see what he had to say below.
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Speaking to Flux FM and transcribed by The PRP, Boyd spoke about the band’s next record, which will mark their first in eight years since 2017’s ‘8’. While the band have yet to officially announce the album, Boyd has revealed that the record was completed earlier this year.
Boyd shared: “We actually finished the album, I guess about, a little over two months ago. And it’s like mastered, it’s mixed, it’s just ready to go. The sad part about finishing the album in this day and age is that, as much as I would like to just put it out; I would love to put it out tomorrow, and we could put it out tomorrow, but it would get just lost in the shuffle of the internet, you know what I mean?”
As for when the album’s going to be released, he had this to say: “We’re gonna do like setup work for it and it’s probably gonna come out in October. So there will be a single that’ll come out before October, probably in the next few months, there’ll be a single. …Even with all of the setup that we’re gonna do, it most likely will still get lost in the internet [laughs]. Because it’s the internet.”
Boyd said of the album and its recording process: “I think it’s a really great record, and I’m really proud of it, and all of us in the band are really proud of it. We had a wonderful time recording it.”
The album also marks their first with new bassist Nicole Row, who Boyd says has “become a very fast asset to the band”. In terms of her involvement, the frontman also confirmed that they wrote the album with her and that Row “has amazing ideas” and is “a breath of fresh air”.
Their longtime bassist Ben Kenney stepped away from the band in 2023 after undergoing surgery for a brain tumour, which left him permanently deaf in one year and partially paralysed in his face. He has since released his debut solo album ‘Powerful Buttcheeks’ earlier this month.
Next month, Incubus will host a show at the O2 in London, where they’ll perform their seminal 2001 album ‘Morning View’ in its entirety, along with other hits from throughout their career. After that, they’ll take the same show to Cologne on April 30. The gigs are set to be their “only UK and Ireland performance” of this year. Visit here for remaining tickets.
The shows were announced after Brandon Boyd spoke to NME in 2021 about the 20th anniversary of the album, which spawned the hit singles ‘Nice To Know You’, ‘Are You In?’ and ‘Wish You Were Here’. During the interview, he shared that there could be more leftover material from that era to come from the vaults.
“There’s a lot of material and we might dust some of it off at some point,” he said. “Sometimes old ideas or demos find their way into back into our sort of collective band consciousness and we’ll dust them off and rearrange them and they become new songs.”
