"It hits with the kind of brilliant melodic punch he hasn’t delivered in years": Devin Townsend conjures up unexpected greatness on PowerNerd

Devin Townsend: PowerNerd cover art.

Devin Townsend is one of life’s over-thinkers, wrapping his albums in layers of conceptual and psychological detail.

By contrast, PowerNerd, his twenty-second solo album, is driven by pure instinct, deliberately written in a nine-day burst of creativity and sounding all the better for it.