Devin Townsend and label InsideOut Music are very pleased to announce that the new studio album Lightwork, produced by Devin and Gggarth Richardson (Biffy Clyro et cetera), will be released on Friday 28 October 2022. The album will be accompanied by a companion record called Nightwork, available as part of the limited edition versions of the release.

Devin comments: “Hey all this is Devin. Welcome to my newest album Lightwork. The last few years have been a lot, and this is the music that I wrote during that time.

“In essence, Lightwork is a bit more of a ‘song’ oriented album. A bit more direct and simpler than a lot of what I’ve been doing lately. After Empath and The Puzzle, things kind of swung back in the direction of more traditional arrangements for Lightwork.

“Lyrically, It kind of hints at the struggles of the last few years but with an eye on putting the pieces back together again”.

After a few exceptionally long years full of personal change and near manic levels of creative activity, Canadian musician Devin Townsend releases his follow up to 2019’s well received Empath in the form of his new release: Lightwork.

Assembled from a barrage of material written during the pandemic, Lightwork (and its companion album of B-sides and demos; Nightwork) represents Devin at this stage of his life, post pandemic, and his reflections on what he (and many of us) have all gone through.

For Lightwork, Devin decided to see what would happen if he included a producer (an experiment he has been excited to attempt for some time) to help guide this selection of material.

He chose long-time friend GGGarth Richardson to help bring this idea to fruition, and through a difficult (but wonderful) process, the next Devin album has been delivered.

The name Lightwork represents the music, as well as the act of creating music, as a kind of ‘light in the dark’ while trying to navigate the seemingly endless challenges that life can often present.

When things seem like’ there’s no way out’ or that a situation becomes seemingly insurmountable, the connection to music, family, and creativity became a light in the dark that ended up in this wonderful album.