Alt-rock band Incubus has not released a new album since 2011's If Not Now, When?, but according to guitarist Mike Einziger, the band has some new music on the way for 2015. In an interview with Billboard, Einziger revealed that Incubus has signed with Island Records, but instead of releasing a full-album, they will be releasing two new EPs in 2015.
"We're hoping to have the first one in February or March," Einziger says, "then the summer."
These EPs will be Incubus's first releases since parting ways with Epic Records in 2012 and were recorded without any idea of how they would be released.
"We didn't have any plans to make this record," Einziger says. "Just having no horizon to look at was important to us. We needed that."
As to how the music on these EPs compares to their previous releases, Einziger says that most of it is "high energy" though still fairly eclectic.
"We've written our slowest song, but also our heaviest song," he says. "This is what the band sounds like in 2014, 2015."
Back in June, Einziger spoke to radio.com about the difficulties of bringing the band together after taking a break.
"You know everybody's got a lot of things going on, but we're slowly bringing our focus back to the band," Einziger said, "and everybody's excited about it because we've had enough time away from it to where it's exciting for everyone. There's definitely some really great stuff coming."
The lead single from the first EP will be "Trust Fall," which the band debuted recently at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas.
"It's pretty indicative of where we are now," Einziger said of the song. "It's pretty ambitious."
You can check out their performance of the song here:
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