A friend of mine recently let me borrow "Light Grenades," the new C.D. by Incubus.
Maybe I should preface this by saying that I'm not traditionally an Incubus fan. I liked their song about spontaneous combustion, and I liked the cute one that involved outer space and being together or something. Other than that, though, I tend to kind of ignore the band's existence.
I really enjoyed Light Grenades. My favorite tracks were 2 and 3 ("A Kiss to Send Us Off" and "Dig", respectively), and I was honestly surprised by the cohesiveness and texture of the entire album. It's true that I haven't listened to any of their other CD's that closely, and maybe I'd also enjoy them, but this one seemed to show a lot more musical maturity than I've noticed from them in the past.
There were still a couple things I didn't like, but those had more to do with my personal preferences about what constitutes a "pleasant" vs "unpleasant" sound. Structurally (and lyrically, in most places) it's an extremely solid, and somewhat unique effort. I highly recommend it.
The past week or so has been pretty good - interesting as usual, and a bit confusing. I've been a lot more cautious about some things this summer than I have in the past - I think overall I'm going to be glad, but perhaps for different reasons than I anticipated. I'm continually reminded of my tendency to go with the status quo just because there's nothing wrong with it, instead of actively looking around for something that might be a net positive.
But hey, I'm workin' on it. (grin)
2 comments:
"Dig" is my absolute favorite track on that CD.
I think that you might be referring to "Wish You Were Here" w.r.t. something about outer space and being together. I only think that because there's a line "I'm counting ufo's.
I signal them with my lighter
and in this moment i am happy, happy.", but I could be wrong. If it is the same song, that's a favorite of mine as well.
After some sleuth work on Amazon, I've determined that the song I was referring to is actually "Stellar," another single from the album "Make Yourself."
"Wish You Were Here" was a good guess though, based on my extremely ambiguous description.
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