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===Hiatus and greatest hits album (2009–2010)===
In April 2008 the band took a break from touring and recording while its members concentrated on school, family and other activities. Brandon Boyd enrolled in a university art program in Los Angeles, while guitarist Mike Einziger went to Harvard music school to study composition. Drummer José Pasillas was also "having a baby, so there's a lot of normal life stuff going on right now—school, babies, mortgages," Boyd said. "I'm of the mind to say it wouldn't be a bad thing to disappear for a year or two years," he said. "A lot of people would say culture moves too fast and you need to remind people, but I would argue there's not any rush."<ref>''Ultimate Guitar'', 2008. [http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/incubus_to_take_a_break.html Incubus To Take A Break].</ref>

In mid January 2009, Incubus posted a video to their official site, describing what each band member was occupied with in the form of letters to each other. The resolution of the video was that the band was planning on getting back together soon, excited to create new music with their diverse experiences over their respite.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.enjoyincubus.com/ |title='Enjoy Incubus', 2009 |publisher=Enjoyincubus.com |access-date=October 24, 2011 |archive-date=July 1, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701085651/http://www.enjoyincubus.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On March 11, 2009, Incubus posted an update to their official site detailing the new greatest hits album, ''[[Monuments and Melodies]]''. The first single for the album was "Black Heart Inertia", released on April 7, 2009, with the album coming two months later on June 16, 2009. Disc one of the album included new singles "Black Heart Inertia" and "Midnight Swim" as well as the top radio hits of the last decade. Then disc two of the album contains songs that have not been released officially on an album, or were rejected demos on prior albums, as well as an acoustic version of "A Certain Shade of Green", and a cover of the [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] song "Let's Go Crazy". The band also announced many confirmed dates for a Summer Amphitheater Tour of the US.

On April 1, 2009, the band posted a fake "making of" video that was filmed on the set of "Black Heart Inertia". In the video, Brandon and his double "swapped places". Brandon fetched coffee for his double, and his double also imitated [[Christian Bale]] when the DP annoyed him, shouting at and violently chasing him out off of the set. After the short film, the first full stream of "Black Heart Inertia" was uploaded, clocking in at 4:17. On April 2, the full song was streamed on the band's official site. The song peaked at No. 7 on the [[Hot Modern Rock Tracks|Alternative Songs]] chart,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Alternative Airplay Chart: The week of June 27, 2009 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/alternative-airplay/2009-06-27 |magazine=Billboard |url-access=subscription |access-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420024902/https://www.billboard.com/charts/alternative-airplay/2009-06-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> making it the band's 15th Top 10 standing on the list.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}

On June 16, 2009, ''Monuments and Melodies'' was released to the public, and opened at No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' 200. ''Monuments and Melodies'' was the band's fourth album to reach the top 5 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The next month, on July 1, 2009, Boyd stated to ''North County Times'', "We are definitely going to be writing ... in hopes of putting out a record sometime in 2010. That's the hope. We can never force anything. I definitely have the suspicion that we're going to get on the road together this summer, and we're just going to start playing and stuff is going to start brewing, and we're going to light that fire again."

In January 2010, it was revealed that former turntablist Gavin "DJ Lyfe" Koppel threatened current turntablist Chris Kilmore in a store on December 28, 2009. Kilmore, who replaced Koppel in 1998, claimed that Koppel "asked me to fight him right there and raised his fists to me."<ref name="TMZ 011210">{{cite news|url=https://www.tmz.com/2010/01/12/new-incubus-dj-fears-old-incubus-dj/|title=New Incubus DJ Fears Old Incubus DJ|date=January 12, 2010|work=TMZ|access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref> As result of the incident, a judge granted a new [[restraining order]] against Koppel. Kilmore also had a previous restraining order issued against Koppel in 2003 after Koppel allegedly spat in his face.<ref name="TMZ 011210"/>