Album review: Devin Townsend – Lightwork

Almost 30 years since he first emerged as the vocalist on guitar virtuoso Steve Vai’s Sex & Religion album, one might wonder where Devin Townsend has left to go. Both prolific and prodigious, across more than 20 albums and what feels like almost as many bands, the Canadian has traversed a universe of music, from the metal-beyond-metal heaviness of Strapping Young Lad, to the euphoria of The Devin Townsend Project​’s seven-part suite of albums, a country diversion with Casualties Of Cool, a stint playing guitar in The Wildhearts, an outer-space excursion as the bonkers Ziltoid The Omniscient… His last album, 2019’s Empath, without looking backward, he also seemed to wrangle the vastness of his musical personality together into one brilliant whole.  So,...

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