Hey, this is pretty nice. I mean, it’s laid back, chilled and all, and, it’s a decent example mellow picked country rock with a real old-time blues twang about it... Wait, this is Devin Townsend? It’s melodic, tuneful, and there’s harmony. It’s simple, stripped back, sounds like some busker dude or someone playing in a pub somewhere. Someone with a bit of talent, for sure, but Devin Townsend? The man responsible for fuse-blowing, speaker-shredding wall-of-noise albums like Strapping Young Lad’s ‘City?
Over four years in the making, ‘Casualties of Cool’ was evidently a labour of love, which Townsend explains was ‘rooted was in the frustration of it all. Frustrated by the loud...’ And so the album was composed and recorded during his downtime, at night after working his studio day job as a break from it all, revisiting the rootsy country and North American folk music of his youth.
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It’s certainly a departure, and also a refreshing change that reveals a very different side of a man who’s built a career on his name being synonymous with noise. It’s also a very decent album.
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