The Puzzle / Snuggles Explained

The Puzzle / Snuggles
Type:studio
Artist:Devin Townsend
Cover:Devin Townsend - The Puzzle.png
Caption:The Puzzle cover
Recorded:2020–2021
Studio:The Armoury Studios, The Farm, Devlab, and The Armory, Vancouver, Canada
Genre:Ambient, experimental[1]
Length: (The Puzzle)
(Snuggles)
Label:HevyDevy
Producer:Devin Townsend
Prev Title:Empath
Prev Year:2019
Next Title:Lightwork
Next Year:2022

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.

Production

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]

Personnel

Credits adapted from the albums' liner notes.[5] [6]

The Puzzle

Snuggles

Technical

Notes and References

  1. Web site: THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From DEVIN TOWNSEND, VOLBEAT, and More Out Today - 12/3. 2021-12-03. Metal Injection. 2021-12-05.
  2. Web site: Devin Townsend: Empath. March 29, 2019. Exclaim!.
  3. Web site: Devin Townsend Explains Two New Albums, The Puzzle and Snuggles, in New Documentary Series. August 9, 2021. MetalSucks.
  4. Web site: Devin Townsend Outlines Plans for Next Several Albums (Including The Moth!). August 25, 2021. MetalSucks.
  5. The Puzzle. 2021. Devin Townsend. HevyDevy Records. liner notes. HDR0001007.
  6. Snuggles. 2021. Devin Townsend. HevyDevy Records. liner notes. HDR0001008.