Devin Townsend
Empath
Release Date: Mar 29, 2019
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
Record label: Inside Out Music
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Album Review: Empath by Devin Townsend
Excellent, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
The image of Devin Townsend as a maniacal metalhead is still tough for some listeners to shake, but the past decade has found the artist demonstrating just how far his range of influences can take him. Townsend played with pop song structures on 2009's Addicted, blissful new age sounds on 2011's Ghost, choral and string arrangements on 2012's Epicloud, and country and blues with 2014's Casualties of Cool. With Empath, Townsend seeks to bring these seemingly disparate influences together in one album, and largely succeeds. The artist's ….
Based on rating 8/10
"I know where I'm headed, but I don't know what it is," says Devin Townsend in the initial episode of the seven-part documentary that prefaced the release of Empath, his first solo album since dissolving the Devin Townsend Project in 2017. For nearly 30 years, Townsend has erased artificial boundaries between genres. He has continually juxtaposed tracks ranging from extreme metal to progressive rock, classical, new age, ambient music, and even Americana on the same album.
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