"We carved our own path" blbrd.cm/Oihqqa http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7752345/incubus-20-year-legacy-interview?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
It has been 20 years since S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Does it feel like it has been that long?
Boyd: My true-felt experience is there are moments when it feels like we blinked and it has been 20-something years -- a band for 26 years and 20 years since our first major-label release -- but then there are moments where it feels like it was 200 years ago, where I listen to the music and I can feel where we were when we wrote that song.
Einziger: It feels like a thousand years, to be honest. It’s crazy. It’s fun. From a certain perspective it feels like it has been lifetimes, and then from other vantage points it’s like no time has passed. It’s a very strange dichotomy, but it gives me a massive sense of appreciation for what we’ve been through, what we’ve accomplished, what we’ve done. It makes me feel very happy.
Incubusに出会ったのは2003年。2004年の武道館ははじめてのLIVE。そのときからずっと好き。私も幸せです。
It has come full circle on 8 with Skrillex. How did that come together?
Boyd: I loved the album when it was sort of “done” with Dave Sardy mixing it -- producing it first and then mixing it. And then Skrillex came in. We’ve been friends for a little while, and we had lunch one day and he was like, “Let me hear some tracks.” So he came in just to listen to it as a friend, and he was stoked. Then he heard “Familiar Faces” and was like, “Can I just take that in this other room? Give me an hour. I have an idea.” He had his laptop, so we gave him the stems, and in an hour he turned it from a deep album track into a single. And he didn’t “Skrillex” it. He didn’t throw, like, square waves and wop-wop things all over it. It’s an Incubus song; he just made it better. And then he remixed the rest of the album.
Einziger: It’s almost like he joined the band for a couple of weeks. He was vital.
Did someone specific inspire lead single “Nimble Bastard”?
Boyd: When I say “You’re a nimble bastard,” I’m using it as a term of endearment. There are people I look up to for their ability to always land on their feet. It could be under the most horrific circumstances, the lowest low you can imagine, and they use it to become a better version of themselves. I’m saying, “Will you show me how to do that?”
If you turn 8 on its side, it’s the infinity sign. Is that a statement of intent?
Einziger: (Laughs.) Absolutely! Calling it 8 is loaded for me because one symbol signifies 20 years of albums, songs and traveling the world. Twenty years of collaboration, hardship, catastrophe and triumph rolled into one number. It’s not obvious that it’s ever going to connect. We’re just a bunch of guys in a room together. The fact that we connected to millions of people around the world blows my mind.
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