To hear them is to picture waves breaking on a California shoreline – some brashly, some gently, but all beautifully. Today they remain one of the most popular rock acts, with their latest. Fortunately, Incubus' music felt a lot more sincere than all this schticking around. It features seven music videos, including Drive and Pardon Me plus live. By 2001, Incubus became hugely successful with the single Drive and their follow up album Morning View. UNIVERSAL AMPHITHEATRE, UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 1,2001. Incubus Volume 2 is a treasure trove of video footage for fans of the band. An edgy mix of grunge, funk rock, rap metal, and more. The alt-metal band show off their fiercest and funkiest roots. Staying California cool while hopping all over the musical map. Circles and Just A Phase, for example, display a proggy, unhurried mastery of dynamics. Originally part of the nu-metal movement, the band started branch out creatively and earned mainstram recognition with the release of their 1999 album Make Yourself. This California group blends alt-rock, funk-metal, and post-grunge to melodic effect. 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. 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. 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.
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