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If Not Now, When? [Incubus]

Incubus
1 disc

1. If Not Now, When?
2. Promises, Promises
3. Friends and Lovers
4. Thieves
5. Isadore
6. Original, The
7. Defiance
8. In the Company of Wolves
9. Switchblade
10. Adolescents
11. Tomorrow's Food
12. Surface To Air
13. Megalomaniac [Explicit Version] - (live)
14. Dig - (live)
15. Love Hurts - (live)
16. Wish You Were Here - (live)
17. Nice To Know You - (live)
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 88697936172
Credits

Producer Brendan O'Brien
Engineer Tom Syrowski
Personnel: Michael Einziger (guitar, piano); The Ann Marie Simpson Orchestra (strings); Christopher Kilmore (piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards, turntables); Jose Antonio Pasillas II (drums); Brandon Boyd (percussion).
Recording information: Blackbird Studio, Nashville, TN; Casa Chica, Malibu, CA; Henson Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Arranger: Michael Einziger.
Seizing their extended half-decade hiatus as an opportunity to reinvent themselves, Incubus dive headfirst into a comfortable middle age on their seventh album, If Not Now, When? This is no crisis, this is deliberate: with the assistance of producer Brendan O'Brien, they've turned down the guitars and ratcheted up the synthesizers, trading roiling angst for occasional spells of moodiness, deciding to settle into a warm, textured adult pop that occasionally recalls nothing so much as Neil Finn at his spaciest. Incubus aren't completely ready to become an AAA act -- they're spry enough to sound convincing on the clatter of "Switchblade," the guitars don't soothe so much as evoke desolate landscapes, vocalist Brandon Boyd still favors some unsettling lyrical imagery -- but the end result is an album on a shaded, comfortable grayscale, music that's suitably mature yet sidesteps stultifying notions of middlebrow class. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Critic Reviews

Spin (p.76) - "On the band's seventh album, Incubus fully embrace surf-bum balladry..."