Incubus‘ long-awaited ninth album will see the light of day in 2025, marking their first new full-length LP in eight years. Singer Brandon Boyd has revealed that the album is recorded, mixed, and mastered — and just about “ready to go.”
That said, fans will have to stick it out for several more months until a likely October release as the album goes through the standard promotion cycle, with a single or two dropping beforehand.
“We actually finished the album, I guess about, a little over two months ago,” Boyd told FluxFM in a new interview (as transcribed by The PRP). “And it’s like mastered, it’s mixed, it’s just ready to go. We’re working on the artwork for it. 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?”
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The singer continued, “And even if… we’re gonna do like setup work for it and it’s probably gonna come out in October. So there will be a single that’ll come out before October, probably in the next few months, there’ll be a single. …Even with all of the setup that we’re gonna do, it most likely will still get lost in the internet [laughs]. Because it’s the internet.”
Boyd added that the forthcoming album was produced by the band’s longtime studio cohort Brendan O’Brien, who produced the three Incubus albums from 2004 through 2011, as well as Boyd’s Sons of the Sea side-project.
“He’s my favorite producer that I’ve ever worked with, and I’m so happy that we got to re-engage with him for this experience,” Boyd said. “It happened really fast, which is always a good sign for us. When an album comes together, like quickly, it means that we have gotten into a flow state of sorts.”
Boyd then lauded new bassist Nicole Row, appearing on her first Incubus LP: “Sshe knocked it out of the park. We’re all totally in love with her, and she’s become a very fast asset to the band. We’re really, really happy that she jumped on board. So, yeah, it’s, it’s a lot of fun.”
The forthcoming album will be the follow-up to Incubus’ 2017 LP, simply titled 8. The band did release an EP of new music titled Trust Fall (Side B) in 2020.
Incubus are also set to hit the road in the months ahead, kicking off a new North American leg of their “Morning View + The Hits Tour” in June. Get tickets here.
