Incubus, the rock band from California formed during the early 1990’s who has achieved commercial success, reaching multi-platinum sales — as well producing several successful singles — has now released its first new album in nearly a decade.
According to a story on syracuse.com , Incubus singer Brandon Boyd told Flux FM that the band recently finished the album and plans to release it this year. It will be Incubus’ first full-length album of new material since “8″ in 2017.
“We actually finished the album, I guess about, a little over two months ago,” Boyd said. ”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?”
According to NME, New Musical Express, a popular music magazine in the UK, Boyd expects the first single will be released “in the next few months” and the album will likely follow in October. A title and other details were not announced at this time.
“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,” Boyd told Flux FM.
In addition to being Incubus’ first new album in eight years, it will be the band’s first new music with bassist Nicole Row.
NME further revealed that former bass player Ben Kenney left the group in 2023 after undergoing surgery for a brain tumor, which left him permanently deaf in one ear and partially paralyzed in his face.