Devin Townsend Announces New LP "Lightwork" with Lead Single 'Moonpeople'

'Moonpeople' is the album’s opening track, and arrives with a video filmed by Devin himself while he was in Spain earlier this year. Featuring some lovely scenery and his daughter, the music video is the first in a three-part series of clips. The song itself highlights Heavy Devvy's vocals and follows a steady beat as the music floats light as air.

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 explains:

"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."

On the first single, he further dives in:

We chose Moonpeople as the first of three video releases from this project, The three videos share a theme, so I think that’ll work. Moonpeople is the first song on Lightwork and acts as a sort of mission statement for the album. Post-pandemic… kids are now teens… 50 years old, who am I now? Beyond any platitudes or delusions, who am I now that the smoke is clearing and what do I want to do, and who do I want to be, moving forward?

The term ‘Moonpeople’ in my mind, refers to those in society that kind of ‘watch’ things rather than being directly involved in it. Maybe the Moonpeople are more introverted rather than extroverted? In any case, it functions as a song on the album that will set the stage for the dynamic nature of the material that follows it.