To hear them is to picture waves breaking on a California shoreline – some brashly, some gently, but all beautifully. Einziger straps on an acoustic guitar for the haunting Mexico and the solitary new (ish) song 2020’s Karma, Come Back blends delicate melodies and Led Zeppelin riffola to terrific effect. Circles and Just A Phase, for example, display a proggy, unhurried mastery of dynamics. Boasting, though it does, some of the band’s most famous and successful songs (Wish You Were Here, Are You In?), it’s in the deeper cuts that the gold really lays. Even more than that, though, is how boldly the band express themselves from their newly elevated platform, blending genres like an artist mixes paints on their palette. What makes Morning View so special? Its combination of great songs and peerless musicianship shot through with a tangible sense of where it was made certainly helps. Instead the band decamped to a beautiful house in Malibu for six months, got some sun and jammed – a group of friends just hanging out and making a masterpiece. Having achieved mainstream success with Make Yourself, it would have been easy for Incubus to dole out more of the same for its follow-up.
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