Addicted (Devin Townsend Project album)

Addicted is the second of seven albums in the Devin Townsend Project series, each featuring a different lineup and theme.{{cite web|publisher=Blabbermouth.net|date=March 20, 2009|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/devin-townsend-to-return-this-summer-with-ki|title=Devin Townsend to return this summer with 'Ki'|accessdate=September 3, 2013}} 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. Recording for the album began May 6, 2009.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} The next album in the series is Deconstruction, which was released on June 20, 2011.

According to Townsend, Addicted is an album of "melodic" and "danceable" music.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} He 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).{{cite web|author=Genghis & Ragman|date=May 10, 2009|url=http://therighttorock.com/?p=440|title=Podcast #80 – Idol|publisher=The Right to Rock}} The album's production style was directly influenced by Nickelback's 2008 album Dark Horse.{{cite web|last=Rausch |first=Jan |date=April 7, 2009 |url=http://www.toazted.com/interview/185/Devin-Townsend.html |title=Video interview with Devin Townsend |publisher=Toazted |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130170320/http://www.toazted.com/interview/185/Devin-Townsend.html |archivedate=January 30, 2012 }} Townsend has quipped that "Some parts of it sound like Meshuggah, some parts of it sound like Boney M."

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.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Addicted |others=The Devin Townsend Project |year=2009 |type=booklet |publisher=HevyDevy Records}}

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{{flat}}, "Hyperdrive!" in open C{{sharp}} (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|date=April 2011}}

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.{{cite web|publisher=HevyDevy Records |date=October 6, 2009 |url=http://www.hevydevy.com/news/2009/10/06/addicted-pre-sale-on-now/ |title=Addicted Exclusive Specially Priced Pre-Order Packages Now Available |accessdate=November 21, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225222429/http://www.hevydevy.com/news/2009/10/06/addicted-pre-sale-on-now/ |archivedate=December 25, 2010 }} The album was released on November 13, 2009, in Germany,{{cite web|publisher=InsideOut Music (Germany)|url=http://www.insideout.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=660&language=de|title=Devin Townsend Project – Addicted (German)|accessdate=April 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091117003009/http://www.insideout.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=660|archive-date=November 17, 2009|url-status=dead}} November 16, 2009, in the rest of Europe, and November 17, 2009, in North America by InsideOut Music.{{cite web|publisher=InsideOut Music|url=http://www.insideout.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=660|title=Devin Townsend Project – Addicted|accessdate=November 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091117003009/http://www.insideout.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=660|archive-date=November 17, 2009|url-status=dead}} It was released in Japan through Marquee/Avalon on December 16, 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/848276/1/|title=アディクテッド/デヴィン・タウンゼンド・プロジェクト|publisher=Oricon|language=ja|accessdate=November 21, 2009}}

The album features art by Travis Smith, who created the album art for Townsend's previous albums Terria and Accelerated Evolution.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/travis-smith-mn0002054558|title=Travis Smith artwork|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=July 13, 2014}} The InsideOut releases are sold in a slipcase bearing Smith's Devin Townsend Project logo.{{cite web|publisher=InsideOut Music (Shop) |url=http://www.insideoutshop.de/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=2175 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719045847/http://www.insideoutshop.de/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=2175 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |title=Devin Townsend Project – Addicted |accessdate=November 25, 2009 }}

{{track listing

| all_writing = Devin Townsend, except where noted

| title1 = Addicted!

| length1 = 5:37

| title2 = Universe in a Ball!

| length2 = 4:09

| title3 = Bend It Like Bender!

| length3 = 3:37

| title4 = Supercrush!

| length4 = 5:13

| title5 = Hyperdrive!

| length5 = 3:36

| title6 = Resolve!

| length6 = 3:12

| title7 = Ih-Ah!

| length7 = 3:45

| title8 = The Way Home!

| note8 = Devin Townsend, Brian Waddell

| length8 = 3:14

| title9 = Numbered!

| length9 = 4:55

| title10 = Awake!!

| length10 = 9:44

| total_length = 46:49

}}

• Devin Townsend – vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming, production, mixing
• Ryan Van Poederooyen – drums
• Brian "Beav" Waddell – bass
• Mark Cimino – guitar

• Anneke van Giersbergen – additional vocals, lead vocals on "Supercrush!", "Hyperdrive!", "Resolve!" and "Numbered!"
• Dave Young – additional keyboards
• Susanne Richter – additional vocals on "Ih-Ah!"
• Rob Cunningham, Hugh Gilmartin, John Rafferty, Brian Johnson, Steve Lobmeier; Devin Townsend, Brian "Beav" Waddell, Ryan Van Poederooyen and Mark Cimino – gang vocals
• Travis Smith – art

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