Incubus

With Incubus' re-releasing of the its first album, Fungus Amongus, the band shows off its early talent. The album was originally released when the band members were still in their mid-teens, and their non-teenage sound is a great alternative to other teen bands such as Hanson. \nIncubus describes its sound at the time as "just a couple of 16-year-olds wanting very badly to be Primus, Mr. Bungle and The Red Hot Chili Peppers all rolled into one." It does a good job of this with some of its songs sounding much like early Chili Peppers. A more accurate description might be a combination of a Phish-like sound and Korn. Happy Knappy's vocals at times sound exactly like a mixture of Anthony Kiedis' funk rap and Jonathan Davis' screamings.\nMost of the songs combine an amazing bass line by Dirk Lance with great up-stroke guitar work by Fabio. Most tracks start off slow and soothing, but the further into the song, the faster and harder Incubus gets. This has pros and cons.\nThis is good because of the originality with combining different genres of music and constantly changing tempos, perfect music for fans of all music. Incubus makes great use of punk, rock, jazz, pop, metal and rap, appropriate for the schizophrenic in everyone. But when the multiple personality disorder isn't kicking in, this can be quite annoying.\nBy combining so many different types of music, one might just get sick of it and stop listening completely. Only certain types of music can fit certain types of moods, and Incubus makes its listeners change their moods many times throughout the album and even during some songs.\nOverall this is a pretty good CD and impressive after learning that the band released this at the same age as the average teenager was learning algebra and popping pimples. Incubus was probably doing the same thing, but it was also making damn good music.