If Not Now, When?

by Incubus

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	11/10/2023
Label:	Music On Vinyl
UPC:	8719262028319
Rank:	26008

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Incubus   Primary Artist
Brandon Boyd   Percussion
Jose Antonio Pasillas II   Drums
Mike Einziger   Piano,Guitar,String Conductor
Chris "DJ" Kilmore   Organ,Piano,Keyboards,Mellotron,Turntables
Benjamin Kenney   Bass
The Ann Marie Simpson Orchestra   Strings

Technical Credits

Billy Bowers   Assistant Engineer
Brandon Boyd   Composer,Group Member,Art Direction
Brendan O'Brien   Producer
George Marino   Mastering
Jose Antonio Pasillas II   Composer,Group Member
Lowell Reynolds   Assistant Engineer
Tom Syrowski   Engineer
Incubus   Composer
Mike Einziger   Composer,Group Member,Orchestration,Assistant Engineer,String Arrangements
Paul Lamalfa   Assistant Engineer
Brantley Gutierrez   Photography
Greg DePante   Assistant Engineer
Chris "DJ" Kilmore   Composer,Group Member
Benjamin Kenney   Composer,Group Member
Thierry Orbach   Cover Photo