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Album Review: Devin Townsend Project ‘Deconstruction’
Devin Townsend is without a doubt one of the most inventive and creative forces in metal these days. His own catalogue aside, one can look at his production credits and guest appearances and realize that this is a man who has little regard for musical barriers. So, how does Deconstruction, the third album in the four-album Devin Townsend Project arc, match up to this idea? Find out after the jump my dear reader.
Stand-out tracks include ‘Sumeria’ and ‘Stand’, which are average length songs for this album (6:30-ish and 9:30-ish respectively). But the crème de la crème would have to be ‘The Mighty Masturbator’, a track that I guarantee would be a smash success as a musical theater production. Just have some patience as the song clocks in at almost 17 minutes. Trust me, it’s worth it.
Listen to Deconstruction nonstop for a week and you’ve probably only begun to scratch the surface of everything going on musically. It’s astounding and an absolute joy to try and dissect. This is, without a doubt, Devin Townsend‘s grandest musical epic. However, this means that you’ve got to find a place to blast it at near ungodly volumes, because that is how it should be heard.
The Final Word: Deconstruction is quite possibly the closest I’ve ever heard an album come to aural insanity while still being a complete joy to listen to. My hats off to you Devin Townsend, you’ve managed to astound me yet again.
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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