Incubus’ own Brandon Boyd has recently dropped a new single from his upcoming album ECHOES & COCOONS.
“Petrichor” addresses the idea of finding happiness after processing the darker side of life first. “Rain comes, senses fed,” Boyd sings. “Petrichor/ Wash away all your/ Pain/ From heart and head.”
In a statement, Boyd explained where the inspiration behind the song’s imagery came from: “I come from a place in the world where the sun is almost always shining, and as wonderful as that is, it does carry with it a kind of bias towards happiness and a constant stress around well being,” he explained. “The irony, of course, is that it’ll drive you crazy trying to be happy all of the time.”
He continued, “There is wisdom in sadness and grief, the kind of things we glean from ‘walking through the valley’ can’t be replicated by merely speaking or reading about them, we need to be sad sometimes and enter darkened spaces in order to be more fully realized people. Then there is the pure olfactory bliss of that moment when the rain first hits the ground and the inimitable smell it produces, petrichor, and all that it suggests. Once again, coming from a place that doesn’t see much rain, I’ve come to see those moments when it finally arrives as a performance we so desperately had been waiting for.”
ECHOES & COCOONS, which was previously teased with “Pocket Knife” back in November, is set to release in March of 2022.
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