“Those four songs are in the bag, completely ready to roll,” Kenney boasts. However, in early February they dropped the single ‘Absolution Calling’, which is lifted from the forthcoming four-track EP Trust Fall (Side A) – due in late March. Since that time the band’s toured occasionally, but kept quiet on the new music front. Incubus’ most recent album, If Not Now, When? came out in 2011.

“That’s why Porsche sales in the United States are so high, because people freak out, have a mid-life crisis and they’re like ‘I’m not in the right place, I’m going to divorce my wife and buy a convertible.’ When I look around at the dudes I work with, although we’re all human and all have our shortcomings, I’m like ‘Man, this is alright.’” “Being somewhere you like to be with people you like being around is way better than being successful and being in a place you don’t want to be,” he adds. So the fact that these dudes are as talented and as legit as they are and the fact that these dudes can push me to want to be better, that’s a big motivating factor. I’m a bit of a snob and I don’t like a bunch of music I’m very, very picky.

“I’m happy to be able to eat, I’m happy to be able to pay my mortgage,” he says “Those things are great, but if I didn’t respect it, it would be miserable. Being asked to join a hugely successful band would be a lip-smacking temptation, but Kenney’s entrance wasn’t purely based on commerce. His initiation came in the lead up to 2004’s A Crow Left of the Murder…, following the exit of founding bassist Dirk Lance. Having previously played guitar for The Roots, Kenney wasn’t a member of Incubus when Make Yourself and its multi-platinum successor Morning View were made. However long we go away, no one holds it against us.” “In other situations I imagine it’s harder to keep everyone’s attention, but for some odd reason we’ve been gifted with fans that come back after two years. “Our fans don’t give up on us very quickly,” says bass player Ben Kenney. Should we put this down to good luck? Or perhaps creative sorcery? Well of course, thanks must go to the fans.

But since the bands classic 1999 release, Make Yourself, Incubus have come up with four more LPs, all the while maintaining their headliner status.

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