Make Yourself by Incubus

Make Yourself, Incubus's third album, arrived on October 26, 1999, through Epic and Immortal, and it's the record where the band sanded down the rough edges and started writing songs you could hum on the way home. Scott Litt produced it, and it was the first Incubus album with turntablist Chris Kilmore, who'd come aboard in February 1998 in place of DJ Lyfe.

The sound is alternative rock with plenty of air in it: riffs that crunch and then pull back, a singer who can croon as easily as he can bark, and Kilmore's scratches and swirls tucked into the gaps. "Pardon Me" snarls and lunges, "Stellar" glows and swells, and "Drive" floats along on a breezy, easygoing groove.

All three singles reached the top three of Billboard's alternative chart, and "Drive" went all the way to the top there before crossing over to number 9 on the Hot 100, still the band's only top-ten pop hit. The album went double platinum and set the stage for Morning View.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.