Empath

"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.

Empath is by no means a shortcut to deciphering all of Townsend's output, but its incredibly hard not to marvel at the way in which he wields these influences to exceed the confines of his "progressive" qualifier not to mention the sheer enormity of it all.

One could argue that, until now, Devin Townsend's most ambitious run of studio recordings was the four-album suite released from 2009 through 2011 under the DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT banner. That set of albums began with the low-key art-rock of "Ki", ended with the simultaneous releases of the circus-m...

Dan McHugh reviews the latest release from the iconic progressive genius Devin Townsend. Read his review of Empath here on Distorted Sound!

As cleverly and touchingly rewarding for longtime listeners as it is effectively representative for newcomers, Empath is another work of grandiose measure, gorgeous humility, and absolute idiosyncratic genius.   

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