The Puzzle / Snuggles | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | December 3, 2021 | |||
Recorded | 2020–2021 | |||
Studio | The Armoury Studios, The Farm, Devlab, and The Armory, Vancouver, Canada | |||
Genre | Ambient, experimental [1] | |||
Length | 65:17 (The Puzzle) 38:32 (Snuggles) | |||
Label | HevyDevy | |||
Producer | Devin Townsend | |||
Devin Townsend chronology | ||||
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Snuggles | ||||
The Puzzle and Snuggles are the nineteenth and the twentieth studio albums by Canadian metal musician Devin Townsend, released on his own label HevyDevy Records on December 3, 2021.
Devin Townsend has explained that The Puzzle is "an elaborate and much more chilled out" version of his 2004 album Devlab [2] and "more a collaborative, multimedia art project that acts as a stopgap between Empath and the next record" that "gave me a chance to purge and be completely creatively free", whereas Snuggles is "meant to be something you listen to in order to feel better... Puzzle is chaos, Snuggles is calm. The whole project is meant to express that I think there is a light at the end of this dark tunnel we’ve been through." [3] The two albums serve as a prelude to a "more traditional album", Lightwork, produced by Garth Richardson ( Rage Against the Machine, Mudvayne, Nickelback) and released in November 2022, and "an ambitious project he’s been teasing for years called The Moth". [4]
All tracks are written by Devin Townsend, except were noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Chromatic Ridge" | 3:43 | |
2. | "Life Is but a Dream" | 3:29 | |
3. | "Yucky Lung" | 1:22 | |
4. | "Kittenhead" | 1:13 | |
5. | "Shark in the Ice" | 1:49 | |
6. | "Devil in the Details" | 0:58 | |
7. | "Hammerhead Sugarplum" | 3:47 | |
8. | "Me and the Moon" | 4:12 | |
9. | "Anxiety in Pyjamas" | 3:28 | |
10. | "The Yugas" | Townsend, Mike Keneally | 3:01 |
11. | "Albert Hall" | 3:58 | |
12. | "StarChasm" | Townsend, Steve Vai | 3:59 |
13. | "Perfect Owl" | 2:17 | |
14. | "Maybe over the Void" | Townsend, Mattias Eklundh | 2:56 |
15. | "Light Year Whale" | Townsend, Anneke Van Giersbergen | 4:31 |
16. | "FrogFlowers" | Townsend, Eklundh | 1:11 |
17. | "Mother" | Townsend, Tina Ahlin | 4:28 |
18. | "Southern Sky Geometry" | 2:11 | |
19. | "The Puzzle" | 5:22 | |
20. | "Monuments of Glitch" | 7:22 | |
Total length: | 65:17 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Beyond Measure" | 1:31 | |
2. | "Blue Dot" | Townsend, Ché Aimee Dorval | 3:07 |
3. | "Drifting and Dreaming" | 4:26 | |
4. | "Sundance" | 0:53 | |
5. | "Minds Are Changing" | 3:46 | |
6. | "The Ocean" | 4:54 | |
7. | "Distant, Elegant" | 3:34 | |
8. | "Replikiss" | 3:33 | |
9. | "I Agree" | 3:23 | |
10. | "Tryst" | 3:30 | |
11. | "Sunset Rump" | 1:32 | |
12. | "The Option" | 4:23 | |
Total length: | 38:32 |
Credits adapted from the albums' liner notes. [5] [6]
Chart (2021) | Peak position |
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Finnish Albums ( Suomen virallinen lista) [7] | 50 |
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