Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder
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Artist: IncubusEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2004-02-03
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Megalomaniac
- A Crow Left of the Murder
- Agoraphobia
- Talk Show on Mute
- Beware! Criminal
- Sick Sad Little World
- Pistola
- Southern Girl
- Priceless
- Zee Deveel
- Made for TV Movie
- Smile Lines
- Here in My Room
- Leech
Music reviews of A Crow Left of the Murder
Music Review: A disappointing album
Rating: 2 Stars
I have been listening to ACLOTM over and over, hoping it will grow on me and it hasn't. I find the album to be an intermediary between the styles of "Morning View" and "Light Grenades." There are traces of the Incubus from "Make Yourself" but you can clearly hear the direction the band is taking. Very pop, not much rock. The lyrics are trying to hold onto the social commentary and self-awareness of the earlier works but the music behind them is weak. Unoriginal, awkward, predictable melodies and vocals are found in most of the songs. It feels like they were deliberately trying to write radio-friendly songs that pander to the lowest common denominator listeners. It's albums like this that have kept me from buying anything that's been on the radio in the past decade because most of it is lame. I'm not as disappointed in ACLOTM as I am in "Light Grenades" though. I'm not sure why Incubus chose this musical path but I hope they do an about-face for their next album.
Description of A Crow Left of the Murder
Kicking in like a compellingly acrimonious version of Rush ("Megalomaniac") before meandering through what can rather uncomfortably be termed noodly, time-signature lottery jazz-metal terrain A Crow Left of Murder probably identifies Incubus as the average Pearl Jam fan's second-choice for chin-stroking mosh action. Brendon O'Brien (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam) produces and singer Brandon Boyd possibly fancies himself as a bit of a Vedder-esque sage, even blustering "My secret arsenal is an infinite ageless ink well" on the otherwise acceptable metal squawk of "Pistola".Boyd obviously has big issues with the ills of the world but the lyrics to "Talk Show on Mute" (reality TV is bad, especially Big Brother) and "Zee Deveel" (nice cars, nice clothes and other status symbols are bad) say nothing to enhance mankind's understanding of these twin evils. Incubus are probably on firmer ground with "Made for TV Movie" (like "Megalomaniac" it's an anti-War-on-Terror diatribe) and musically they're to be applauded for sidestepping the prescripted expectations of the metal genre they've been saddled with. Ultimately, however, one's enjoyment of this record swings on whether one considers Brandon Boyd's societal musings to be deeply venerable discourse or just soppy waffle. --Kevin Maidment
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