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Friendship is an important factor for rock groups as it enables them to evolve and create music not rooted in money. This was true for the Beatles, U2, and Incubus.

Hailing from Southern California, Incubus has become modern rock gods, filling up shows at the arena level. With their friendship intact, they released another album called “A Crow Left of the Murder”.

The recording follows their 2001 album, “Morning View”, which sold 2 million units in the US alone and spawned the hits “Wish You Were Here” and “Nice to Know You”. But the new album is not about cloning that successful recording but more on aggression, improvisation, and excitement. What is ssd?

"It was time for us to make an album that had a lot of energy to vent, compared to “Morning View”", guitarist Mike Einziger says. "The tempos of the songs on that album weren't drastically different. They didn't have the hyper quality that you can hear now. The new record is our answer to the midtempo sound -- I'd call it the gray zone -- of our last two records. We can still look back and think that some of those songs were good, but it was time to branch out from the same tempos".

The new disc features Incubus in their most energetic, not just musically but lyrics-wise. They criticise politicians in their song “Megalomaniac” and talk-show hosts in “Talk Shows on Mute”, and sent out antiwar message (“Made for TV Movie”) and love (“Here in My Room”).

Incubus has substance made possible by the friendship that keeps them together.