The Puzzle

by Devin Townsend

The Puzzle cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 December 2021
  • Label: HevyDevy
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 1:05:25
  • Community rating: 3.42/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released concurrently with the more structured 'Snuggles', this project acts as a chaotic, highly abstract sonic diary processing the anxiety of the COVID-19 pandemic. Devin Townsend completely discards traditional songwriting, compiling disjointed audio contributions from over forty remote musicians into a sprawling, surreal sound collage. The album is an overwhelmingly dense, experimental dive into modern ambient and avant-prog aesthetics.

Genres

Descriptors: sampling, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, progressive, diverse, ambient, atmospheric, vocal, synthesizers

Tracklist

  1. Chromatic Ridge (3:43)
  2. Life is but a Dream (3:29)
  3. Yucky Lung (1:22)
  4. Kittenhead (1:13)
  5. Shark in the Ice (1:49)
  6. Devil in the Details (0:58)
  7. Hammerhead Sugarplum (3:47)
  8. Me and the Moon (4:12)
  9. Anxiety in Pyjamas (3:28)
  10. The Yugas (3:01)
  11. Albert Hall (3:58)
  12. StarChasm (3:59)
  13. Perfect Owl (2:17)
  14. Maybe Over The Void (2:56)
  15. Light Year Whale (4:31)
  16. FrogFlowers (1:11)
  17. Mother (4:28)
  18. Southern Sky Geometry (2:11)
  19. The Puzzle (5:22)
  20. Monuments of Glitch (7:22)

Credits

More from Devin Townsend: full discography