Addicted (Devin Townsend Project album)

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Addicted
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Studio album by
Devin Townsend Project
ReleasedNovember 17, 2009 (2009-11-17)
RecordedMay 6 – September 8, 2009
Genre
Length46:49
Label HevyDevy, InsideOut Music
Producer Devin Townsend
Devin Townsend chronology
Ki
(2009)		Addicted
(2009)		 Deconstruction
(2011)
Alternative cover
The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted (2009) - Slipcase.jpg
Slipcase cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Blistering 8.5/10 [4]
BraveWords 9/10 [5]
Chronicles of Chaos 4/10 [6]
Metal Storm 9/10 [7]
mX Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Rock Sound 9/10 [9]

Addicted is the twelfth studio album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend, and the second album in the Devin Townsend Project series. The album was released on November 17, 2009, on Townsend's independent record label HevyDevy Records. The album was written and produced by Townsend, and features Ryan Van Poederooyen, Brian Waddell, Mark Cimino, and Anneke van Giersbergen. [10]

Contents

Background

Addicted is the second of seven albums in the Devin Townsend Project series, each featuring a different lineup and theme. [11] Addicted was written and produced by Townsend. The album features vocals by Townsend along with Anneke van Giersbergen, former singer of Dutch band The Gathering. Brian Waddell and Ryan Van Poederooyen of the former Devin Townsend Band play bass and drums, respectively, while Mark Cimino plays guitar alongside Townsend. [10] Recording for the album began May 6, 2009.[ citation needed ] The next album in the series is Deconstruction , which was released on June 20, 2011.

Music

According to Townsend, Addicted is an album of "melodic" and "danceable" music but is "much heavier" than his previous albums.[ citation needed ] Townsend has compared the album's songwriting to his more accessible songs, such as "Life" from Ocean Machine: Biomech (1997), "Stagnant" from Terria (2001), and "Material" from Physicist (2000). [12] The album's production style was directly influenced by Nickelback's 2008 album Dark Horse . [12] [13] Townsend has quipped that "Some parts of it sound like Meshuggah, some parts of it sound like Boney M." [12] Addicted includes a new version of the song "Hyperdrive" from Townsend's album Ziltoid the Omniscient (2007), with lead vocals by van Giersbergen, who has performed a cover of the song with her former band Agua de Annique. "Resolve!" was "directly influenced by The Wildhearts" and it bears a resemblance to "Vanilla Radio" from The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed . [14] Unlike Townsend's previous albums, which were usually in open C tuning, most of the songs on Addicted were played in open B tuning. "Universe in a Ball!" was played in open B♭, "Hyperdrive!" in open C♯ (to accommodate the vocal range of van Giersbergen, as opposed to the version of "Hyperdrive" that appeared on the album Ziltoid the Omniscient which was recorded in C), and "Ih-Ah!" and "The Way Home!" in open C.[ citation needed ]

Release and artwork

Addicted was released on Townsend's independent record label HevyDevy Records on November 17, 2009, through their website. Pre-orders went on sale October 6, 2009, with special-edition packages through Century Media's CM Distro website. [15] The album was released on November 13, 2009, in Germany, [16] November 16, 2009, in the rest of Europe, and November 17, 2009, in North America by InsideOut Music. [17] It was released in Japan through Marquee/Avalon on December 16, 2009. [18]

The album features art by Travis Smith, who created the album art for Townsend's previous albums Terria and Accelerated Evolution . [19] The InsideOut releases are sold in a slipcase bearing Smith's Devin Townsend Project logo. [20]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Devin Townsend, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Addicted!"5:37
2."Universe in a Ball!"4:09
3."Bend It Like Bender!"3:37
4."Supercrush!"5:13
5."Hyperdrive!"3:36
6."Resolve!"3:12
7."Ih-Ah!"3:45
8."The Way Home!" (Devin Townsend, Brian Waddell)3:14
9."Numbered!"4:55
10."Awake!!"9:44
Total length:46:49

Personnel

Musicians

Additional personnel

Charts

Weekly chart performance for Addicted
Chart (2009)Peak
position
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [21] 36
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [22] 2
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [23] 22
US Top Current Album Sales (Billboard) [24] 168

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