A recentish discovery for me is learning that Incubus kind of slaps? I was mever into most radio rock, but they have some stuff that’s decently written and has tight performances, so I can definitely see myself stick around for their set at a festival. From what I’ve experienced though, this probably isn’t their best album. Their first is a little more out there and their later stuff tighter, but this has “Drive” and “Pardon Me”, so I get why it’s here. Gonna do a C+
I remember when this album came out and my friends were pretty into it. I was never super taken with it. Coming back to it 20+ years later, it has some good stuff but I mostly feel the same. There's a polish to this that I don't care for, and I find that off-putting. 2.75/5
I had mixed feelings about this album when it came out. On the one hand, it sounds great and the song writing is pretty great. Also, lots of great guitar and bass sounds, which Incubus has always been great at. On the other hand, the thing I kind of loved about Incubus' two previous albums is that they sounded like a band still madly searching for their sound. Are they funk-rock, nu-metal, jazz-fusion, Faith No More born again? The answer was "all of it". I loved that, and Make Yourself seems like a zero-ing in on a more polished sound that incorporates lots of their old tricks but turned down on some of the experimentation and mania. Listening now having not listened to any Incubus in a decade or so, I was able to enjoy this album quite a bit. However, I immediately listened to S.C.I.E.N.C.E. after and still much prefer the pre-Make Yourself Incubus.