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Light Grenades is the sixth studio album by alternative rock band Incubus, released on November 28, 2006, on Epic. The album sold 359,000 copies during its first week of release worldwide, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 165,000 copies in the US in its first week; it is the band's first number one album.[1] However, until November 20, 2016,[2][3] Light Grenades held the dubious honor of having the title of the biggest drop from No. 1 in chart history, falling to number 37.[4] The album achieved Gold certification, less than the band's previous Platinum records beginning with 1999's Make Yourself.

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Light Grenades
Studio album by Incubus
Released	24 November 2006
Recorded	January–July 2006
Studio	Henson Recording Studio, Hollywood, California Southern Tracks Recording, Atlanta, Georgia
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	47:36
Label	Epic/Immortal
Producer	Brendan O'Brien
Incubus chronology
A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004) Light Grenades (2006) If Not Now, When? (2011)
Singles from Light Grenades
"Anna Molly" Released: September 20, 2006 "Dig" Released: March 27, 2007 "Oil and Water" Released: June 5, 2007 "Love Hurts" Released: October 7, 2008

History

"Earth to Bella" and "Love Hurts" made their live debut in front of an audience at the Make Some Noise concert on April 29, 2006.

"A Kiss to Send Us Off" and "Anna Molly" made their live debut on VH1's Decades Rock: Live Tribute to the Pretenders on August 11, 2006, even though the songs were not featured in the program. The same two songs were also performed at Edgefest 2006 on September 30 at Tempe Beach Park, Arizona.

"Rogues" made its debut at a pair of pre album-release shows at the London Astoria and the Berlin Postbahnhof on November 14 and 16, 2006.

The songs "Punch Drunk" and "Look Alive" were recorded during the Light Grenades sessions, but were originally only available as bonus tracks on the Japanese edition of the album. Live versions have since seen release worldwide on the Look Alive live DVD. The studio versions of both songs are also on Monuments and Melodies.

Musical style

Mike Einziger, Incubus' guitarist, commented in an interview with MTV that the album "sounds like 13 different bands playing 13 different songs... Every time we're about to start making a new album, I tell myself, 'Okay, this one's going to be cohesive,' and it never happens."[5] For the most part, Light Grenades expands upon the sounds previously explored in 2004's A Crow Left of the Murder....

Other songs showcase a new direction for the band. For example, Brandon Boyd describes the curious recording technique behind "Paper Shoes": "There's a song called 'Paper Shoes' where Michael and I mic'd our bodies with ambient mics and did the percussion tracks pounding on our chests and skulls. The galloping rhythm is us pounding on our chests. It was really funny. We were trying so hard not to laugh because we were sitting there like cavemen beating our chests!"

Themes

When asked about the album title, Boyd explained: "There's a song called that on the record and it felt like the most pertinent conceptual aspect of the album, the idea of throwing ideas at problems and the ideas explode with light and good results and intention on consciousness. So I started imagining imagery of students in different countries protesting and throwing Molotov cocktails with masks over their faces. But there's one brave student who runs up to the police line and, as opposed to throwing rocks or things that destroy, there's this concept of that one courageous, lonely student running up and throwing ideas and having them actually change things. It just seemed kind of a cool concept: the redefining of weaponry."

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[6]
Alternative Press	[7]
Blender	[8]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[9]
IGN	8.8/10[10]
PopMatters	7/10[11]
Rock Sound	8/10[12]
Rolling Stone	[13]
Spin	[14]

At Metacritic, which assigns a rating determined by a "weighted average" of reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a score of 65 out of 100, based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".[15] However, Beats per Minute later identified this album as the start of Incubus' decline in quality that continued with later, softer releases such as If Not Now, When? (2011).[16]

Jon Foreman of IGN praised the single "Dig" in his December 2006 review, but also noted, "Incubus is not limited to poppy, commercially viable tracks like this; tracks that can be (and have been) the downfall of other, less forward thinking bands. With influences from Faith No More to Ani DiFranco, the almost schizophrenic range they have established for themselves counts wholeheartedly on the fact that fans and critics alike realize that the varying genres they incorporate into their music compliment [sic] one another with credible aplomb. In other words, they would not be able to make a track like 'Dig' work on the album without complimentary [sic] tracks like 'Pendulous Threads' or 'Light Grenades'".[10] Mike Schiller of PopMatters wrote in January 2007, "Boyd sounds as Patton-esque in his modern rock operatics as ever, and the band has perfected the transition from studio-friendly perfectionists to intentionally messy well-produced garagers."[11] He further adds, "Incubus has never made a perfect album — no, not even S.C.I.E.N.C.E. — and Light Grenades, truth told, is far from perfect. 'A Kiss to Send Us Off' sounds a little too much like it’s aping Foo Fighters, both 'Earth to Bella' tracks sound forced and disjoint, and there’s still a little too much in the way of faceless middle-of-the-road rock ‘n roll. Even so, there’s not a single track on Light Grenades that’s truly revolting."[11]

Joe Crofton of MusicOMH considered it to be an improvement over A Crow Left of the Murder.... He wrote in his November 2006 review, "I wasn’t expecting much, and on the first hearing I thought my theory had been proved right. Incubus had devolved into a boring sell-out, pandering soft pop-rock to young girls. However, when I removed my sceptics glasses and opened my eyes I began to realise that there is so much more to this record. These are actual songs, in the vein of Make Yourself and the better half of Morning View. Whatever teething problems they may have been experiencing with new bassist Ben Kenney, it all seems to have been resolved."[17]

Track listing

Release history

Region	Date
Europe	24 November 2006
America	28 November 2006

Personnel

Incubus

• Brandon Boyd – lead vocals, percussion, guitar
• Mike Einziger – guitar, piano, rhodes, string arrangements, additional engineering, engineering and mixing on "Quicksand"
• Ben Kenney – bass, backing vocals
• Chris Kilmore – turntables, hammond B3, minimoog voyager, rhodes, mellotron, piano, marxophone, theremin
• Jose Pasillas – drums

Singles

• "Anna-Molly" – was briefly available online on September 20. It was slated for release on October 16, and debuted at No. 19 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. "Anna-Molly" peaked at No. 1 on the Modern Rock chart,[18] at No. 4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart[19] and at No. 66 on the Billboard Hot 100.[20] The song is featured in the music video game Guitar Hero: On Tour.
• "Dig" is the second single from Light Grenades. The video for the single was chosen from a pool of applicants in a fan-film contest. The song is featured in the music video game Lego Rock Band.
• "Oil and Water" was the third US single. It was released to radio stations on June 5, 2007, and climbed to No. 8 on the Modern Rock chart.[21][22]
• "Love Hurts" was released as the third single in some international markets. It was released as the fourth US single in October 2008, 16 months after "Oil and Water".
• "Light Grenades" is used on the soundtrack of the Xbox 360 game Project Gotham Racing 4.

Charts

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2006	"Anna Molly"	Billboard Hot 100[20]	66
		Modern Rock Tracks[18]	1
		Mainstream Rock Tracks[19]	4
2007	"Dig"	Billboard Hot 100[20]	94
		Canadian Hot 100[38]	72
		Modern Rock Tracks[18]	4
		Mainstream Rock Tracks[19]	17
		Adult Top 40[39]	17
	"Oil and Water"	Modern Rock Tracks[18]	8
		Mainstream Rock Tracks[19]	38
2008	"Love Hurts"	Modern Rock Tracks[18]	1

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[40]	Gold	50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[41]	Silver	60,000
United States (RIAA)[42]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

На других языках

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- [en] Light Grenades

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[es] Light Grenades

Light Grenades es el sexto álbum de la banda Incubus, lanzado el 28 de noviembre de 2006. El álbum vendió en su primera semana 229 000 copias alrededor del mundo, la mayoría en los EE. UU. El álbum debutó en el #1 de la Billboard 200, vendiendo en los EE. UU. 165 000 copias. Sin embargo, Light Greandes tiene el triste récord de la mayor caída de un álbum debut en el #1 de la lista, cayendo de la posición #1 a la #37 en su segunda semana en la Billboard 200, superando el récord de Marilyn Manson y su álbum The Golden Age of Grotesque que cayó del #1 al #21 en el año 2003. Hoy el álbum ha obtenido Disco de Oro en EE. UU. y hasta la fecha ha vendido 700 000 en EE. UU.

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[it] Light Grenades

Light Grenades è il sesto album del gruppo alternative rock statunitense Incubus, pubblicato nel 2006.

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