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Since I now have a copy, I will share my thoughts on the album, just as soon as I get done listening to it. I'm psyched out of my mind. So stay tuned, all you non-prorderers.

Tracks (for those who don't know already... For shame)
1. Quicksand
2. A Kiss To Send Us Off
3. Dig
4. Anna Molly'
5. Love Hurts
6. Light Grenades
7. Earth To Bella (Part II)
8. Oil And Water
9. Diamonds And Coal
10. Rogues
11. Paper Shoes
12. Pendulous Threads
13. Earth To Bella (Part II)

And make sure to check out their site to download the podcast with a complete track by track discussion of their thoughts (I haven't listened to it yet but I will)

Its being streamed on clearchannelmusic.com if anyone is to lazy or cheap to buy it

It's absolutly amazing, beautiful and intense. Its overwhelming. It lives up to everything theyve ever done (though Make Yourself will always place 1st in my heart). Truely it is most similar to science but there are some amazing new aspects. It wins.

Yeah, it definately had some of the SCIENCE vibe going a little bit, minus the drugs of course. It might seem mainstream, but only becuase it's so mature, in the same way that the Chilipeppers are concidered mainstream, but their music is not so pedestrian as mainstream bands. It's accessable without being cheap or poppy, and yet not too accessible so it retains its flavor of mystery and exoticism. It hooks you, but you don't necissarily know where it is going to take you.

After reading the whole lyrics book in one sitting, it seems to me that the album as a whole is about a couple who are making a descion to move to the next step and have a serious relationship, or give up and move on, see new people, etc. Quicksand sort of gives us the low down with the "some people fall in love and touch the sky ... some find quicksand" saying that it's risky being seriously in love, but it can be worth it. Then the songs reflect the guy leaving in A Kiss To Send Us Off, reflecting on the positive parts of the relationship (Dig) how much he misses her and possibly that this is the first time he's ever felt this way about someone (Anna Molly) and that, well, Love Hurts. Then Earth To Bella is sort of an interlude to be like, "Hey, girl, you've got to be ready to give it everything, you've got to be ready to forget your preconcieved notions and give us a shot". Then there is stuff like Paper Shoes, Pendulous Thread, and Oil and Water that show his doubts, but also how he is willing to give it a shot, reinforced by the stuff in Diamonds and Coal about how it looks rough but it will get better hopefully. And then in the last Earth To Bella they decide to go throught with it and "take the plunge." And I can only assume that Rouges and Light Grenades allude to the idea that these concepts have a more universal application than just personal relationships, like our relationship with humanity, society, and nature... The fact the the album is called Light Grenades leads me to believe that the "two lovers" in the story are more of allagorical figures, making the album very deep indeed.

Either way, this is my way over analized interpretation. This is the only time I've ever really examined an album this closely and I could take it a lot further if I wanted, mostly because I wanted to take my listening experiance further, plus I had a really good AP English teacher who has taught me to analyse stuff for internal meaning pretty well. And I'm a genious. But not when it comes to spelling. This is my take, and to me, it makes the album absolutely adorable, especailly in the context of it being Incubus, and hey, I'll ask 'em about it when I MEET THEM... Hopefully. So any thoughts?

Diomedes, your signature is hot...

Well, the thing is that I'm working on writing a concept album myself, so that's probably part of why I precieved it as such. And honestly, I mean, there were songs on Crow that were political, but as a whole, I didn't see much of an overall theme on it. It was more about how they felt about various things, and it just so happened that Megalomaniacs was there. And I guess Made For TV Movies and Talk Show On Mute were to a degree, but I thought they were more about how society is blind, that sort of thing. For the most part, their other albums didn't have much of an overall theme, then a musical theme of conected feelings expressed instrumentally. This one seemed a lot more connected, so that's why I see a story to it.

And I'm Alex, pleasure to meet you.

that wensday it cam out my mind went blank till i got it that saturday when i got it and looked at the album art and what not i could tell it was something speical i poped it in and listined to it and its my favortie thing to come out of an emo wraper ( it hurts for me to her and say but lets face it the arts emo)

I "have" a band, but we have yet to have a true practice, and only truely offically "started" last Saturday (although we first decided to get together probably a couple months ago)... Long boring story. Anyway, the album is sort of a solo project, but I'm going to use this band for it possibly, as well as get together with some other local talents whever I get it off the ground, which probably won't be any time soon.

I'm tentatively calling it "Darksiders" as a sort of amalgamation between The Dark Side Of The Moon and DJ Shadow's "The Outsider" even though that title is super cliche... It is a good working title. It focus on the themes of disillusionment with the comercialization of everything beautiful (specifially music) as the part inspired by Pink Floyd and will be a mixture of generas and collaberations like DJ Shadow's album. The "story" if you will follows a band that starts out just having fun and expression themselves but get's big and successful to the point that not only do they lose their creative freedom but their connection with what they are doing, their audience and eachother, and in the end they realise that they had everything they ever needed in the begining and didn't need all of the fame, and frills and all that. That's the focus, on the fact that society makes us believe we are incomplete, but in fact, we are, and we don't need all this extra garbage and how these theme applies to everything and how all that matters is what we do with ourselves and what we've experienced, not neccissarily that our experiance themselves make us special or unique... it's what's inside that counts... It doesn't sound as bad as all that in my head though, trust me... The only problem is that I'm limited by a lack of musical knowledge... But my ultimate goal is to make it multimedia, with like visual arts and maybe a film of some kind... It's fun atleast trying to do it, and that's all that really matters.