Hey! You're awake!
Addicted is the twelfth album by Devin Townsend, released November 17, 2009, nearly six months after his previous album, Ki. It is the second installment of his Devin Townsend Project album series. Musically, it is one of the heavier albums in the series, yet simultaneously one of the most upbeat. It is his first collaboration with Anneke van Giersbergen, former lead singer of The Gathering, who appears on the majority of the songs.
Tracklist:
- "Addicted!" (5:37)
- "Universe in a Ball!" (4:09)
- "Bend It Like Bender!" (3:37)
- "Supercrush!" (5:13)
- "Hyperdrive!" (3:36)
- "Resolve!" (3:12)
- "Ih-Ah!" (3:45)
- "The Way Home!" (3:14)
- "Numbered!" (4:55)
- "Awake!!" (9:44)
Trope it like troper!:
- Album Closure: "Awake!!" is the longest and most climactic song and has a lengthy outro with a slow fadeout.
- Bookends: The lyrics in the intro to the title track, before the first proper verse, reference the verses of "Awake!!".
- Epic Instrumental Opener: The title track takes a little over a minute for the first vocals to appear.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every track title ends with an exclamation point! Except for "Awake!!," which ends with two!!
- Lighter and Softer: Zig-zagged. This is one of the heavier albums in the Devin Townsend Project album series, featuring distorted guitars more prominently than on Ki, but also the poppiest of the first four.
- Longest Song Goes Last: "Awake!!" (9:44) is the sole Epic Rocking song on the album, and serves as its conclusion.
- Lyrical Dissonance: The title track is as musically upbeat as most of the other songs, yet it's about Devin's battle with his pornography addiction.
- Minimalistic Cover Art: Three crayons, two of which are broken, on a plain white background with a purple smear on the side.
- Pocket Dimension: "Universe in a Ball!""There's a universe in us all"
- Production Foreshadowing: The climax of "Awake!!" has a lyric referencing the next DTP album, Deconstruction."Get up, get up, get up, now deconstruct!"
- Rearrange the Song: "Hyperdrive!" is a remake of "Hyperdrive" from Ziltoid the Omniscient, with Anneke singing lead.
- Shout-Out:
- The album cover is a parody of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1998 singles collection The OMD Singles, replacing the CGI chromosomes with CGI crayons.
- "Awake!!" makes a reference to "Walk" by Pantera."Walk on home, boy!"
- Surprisingly Gentle Song: Most of the album features loud, distorted guitars and Metal Screams, but "Ih-Ah!" has a cleaner, gentler sound for its guitars and softer vocals. It's more Alternative Rock than metal.
- Vocal Tag Team: Anneke van Giersbergen is the co-lead singer, alongside Devin, for this album.
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