Devin Townsend kondigde enige tijd geleden zijn nieuwe album PowerNerd aan. Het album zal op 25 oktober uitgebracht worden. Devin Townsends carrière is er een van vele verschillende tijdperken. Hij was de leider van Strapping Young Lad, de spil van het Devin Townsend Project en de co-architect van countryduo Casualties of Cool, terwijl hij zijn productieve en geprezen soloproject in stand hield. Nu begint het nieuwste tijdperk van de polymath met ‘PowerNerd’.
Vandaag zet hij de video bij Jainism online.
Devin legt uit: “This next song was based on my connection to music in the mid nineties. Also the idea of what it means to rend yourself artistically to an unresponsive world in 2024. I referenced The Wildhearts in the chorus, as Ginger is one of our generations greatest songwriters. In preparation for ‘The Moth’, PowerNerd is meant to look back and celebrate the past before moving forward. Thank you for the support…back to work here :)”
Over het nieuwe album, dat hij in slechts elf dagen schreef, zegt hij: “It was a conscious thing. I thought, ‘I’ve spent so much time overthinking every aspect of my work – what would happen if I didn’t?’ Maybe I would have the opportunity to be a bit more direct with what it is that I’m trying to do. I really wanted to see if I could cut through some of the meandering.”
“I would say that a powernerd would be somebody that has a tendency that society has deemed weak or not valuable, whether that’s empathy or being an insular person or an introvert, and turns that into a type of personal power. It’s like, ‘OK, yeah, I’m sensitive to this, that and the other thing, but man, I am going to pull through! I am going to do things with that sensitivity that are rooted in strength.'”
| Tracklisting 1. PowerNerd 2. Falling Apart 3. Knuckledragger 4. Gratitude 5. Dreams of Light 6. Ubelia 7. Jainism 8. Younger Lover 9. Glacier 10. Goodbye 11. Ruby Quaker |