devin townsend c/d

physicist has kingdom, material, planet rain, all top 20 devy material but it's def one of his lesser albums

Something seems off on the production of that album.

My list atm consists of basically every song on Accelerated Evolution

Something seems off on the production of that album.

oh yeah, definitely, his heaviest solo record and there's basically no bottom end, so it's just flying past you

yeah def having a hard time getting into it cos of that.

Gotta say the acoustic version of Funeral is hypnotic and heartbreaking. Crazy how reg version sounds so transcendent and uplifting in comparison.

new one's out next week but is also out there rn. the theme this time around is positivity! he rerecorded "truth" (and it sounds great and works surprisingly well tbh) and there's a ween cover

it's his longest dtp record since deconstruction/ghost fwiw

love this guy but i've only ever really listened to Terria and Addicted, maybe its time to go deeper

ocean machine!!!!

It is... the best album ever recorded

omg

yeah it's like the perfect dreampop-metal album, and he did it more or less on the first throw

when you get to the chorus of 'hide nowhere' your ability to deny, is gone, forever

and then when you get to the bridge your ability to do anything is p much gone as well

olive?

Just awful music. Reminds me of Invader Zim and Richard Dawkins.

good

I mean I hate both dawkins and vasquez but I feel like you could dismiss all prog metal in the same way

i didnt like ocean machine as much as terria but its good

Don't get the Dawkins and Zim comparison.

Cider I didn't love ocean machine right away. Liked it fine. But it'll grow on you.

yeah in a lot of ways it's his deepest record besides terria. lot of rewarding pockets

he's suspiciously good at the hamfisted arena rockers that he slips in once per album or so ("life","stagnant","slow me down")

Yeah he's mastered that

Don't get the Dawkins and Zim comparison.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, September 4, 2016 6:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

neither does punkishippies, don't worry

accelerated evolution is greattttt

yeah 2nd best alb ever recorded B-)

yeah this is my favorite one now

really fell for the new one tonight. feel like the devin townsend "project" has been building toward something like this, that exists in a kind of hybrid space between deconstruction and addicted. it's way less direct and more discursive than epicloud or sky blue, which are prob the two most similar albums he's made in a row. "higher" is amazing, with different production it could be on accelerated evolution

have y'all see this? omfg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJEBGHCdBQ

Yesss its so gr8

That whole show is perfect but that three-song stretch of the three best songs on Ocean Machine (and maybe this three best overall?) is bliss

Any downsides to Original Album Collection: Discovering Devin Townsend Box? Looks like a good set.

http://www.insideoutshop.de/Item/Devin_Townsend_-_Original_Album_Collection-_Discovering_DEVIN_TOWNSEND_-Ltd-_5CD_Edition-/16278

looks like five great albums

Looks ideal for me. Bless all these box sets coming out, they're making things easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iLIozUrHs

he's a great interview.

really fell for the new one tonight. feel like the devin townsend "project" has been building toward something like this, that exists in a kind of hybrid space between deconstruction and addicted. it's way less direct and more discursive than epicloud or sky blue, which are prob the two most similar albums he's made in a row. "higher" is amazing, with different production it could be on accelerated evolution

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, September 8, 2016 12:37 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

checking the new one now. HIGHER! takes like five left turns.

Transcendence through From The Heart is prob my favorite stretch. Back half of From the Heart molds into a beautiful Califone-esque song.

That Ween cover is perfect

Really not my scene all this Jaggerprog, but I am watching 90's Wildhearts live shit and seriously this guy is awesome

In my early 20s, Biomech was the album that I used to "reset" when my mood was spiraling.

Listening to it now for the same reason and it's having the same serene effect on me.

BASTARRRRRD
MOTHER FATHER
NOOOOO

album has that affect yeah

Where to start with this dude? Saw him open a bit for Gojira and Opeth, and he was ... OK!

Either Ocean Machine: Biomech or Terria ... it feels to me that those are generally good places to start rather than something like, say, Ziltoid.

City

bpth those answers are probably right, just depends if you want your head smashed in (City) or your soul lifted to the heavens (Ocean Machine, Terria). I would add Accelerated Evolution to the latter.

with Deconstruction, you can have both ;)

n.b. don't listen to Deconstruction first

lol yeah dont

I should have jumped on that box set earlier. I tried to buy it from two sellers recently and it's sold out.