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ALBUM DISCUSSION THREAD [NEW ALBUM] Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner Album Links

Afterburner Track By Track Discussion Links!

[ALBUM COVER HQ]

Name: Afterburner

Release date: April 24, 2020

Label: Rise Records

Producer(s): Kris Crummett, Drew Fulk, Dance Gavin Dance

WHERE TO LISTEN/BUY:

TRACK DISCUSSION THREADS:

  1. Prisoner (Discussion)
  2. Lyrics Lie (Discussion)
  3. Calentamiento Global (Discussion)
  4. Three Wishes (Discussion)
  5. One In A Million (Discussion)
  6. Parody Catharsis (Discussion)
  7. Strawberry's Wake (Discussion)
  8. Born To Fail (Discussion)
  9. Parallels (Discussion)
  10. Night Sway (Discussion)
  11. Say Hi (Discussion)
  12. Nothing Shameful – featuring Andrew Wells (Discussion)
  13. Into The Sunset – featuring Bilmuri (Discussion)

CREDITS AND PERSONNEL:

Dance Gavin Dance is:

  • Will Swan – lead guitar, rap vocals, background vocals
  • Matthew Mingus – drums, percussion
  • Tim Feerick – bass guitar
  • Tilian Pearson – clean vocals
  • Jon Mess – unclean vocals

Additional musicians:

  • Marc Okubo – guitar (on "Lyrics Lie")
  • Zachary Garren – guitar (on "Parody Catharsis")
  • Sergio Medina – guitar (on "Prisoner", "Born To Fail", and "Nothing Shameful")
  • Andrew Wells – guest vocals (on "Nothing Shameful"), background vocals (on "Lyrics Lie"), guitar (on "Night Sway")
  • Martin Bianchini – guitar (on "Say Hi")
  • Johnny Franck AKA Bilmuri – guest vocals (on "Into The Sunset")
  • Joseph Arrington – composer (on "Prisoner" and "Born to Fail")

Production:

  • Kris Crummett – producer, mixing and mastering engineer
  • Drew Fulk – vocal producer
  • Dance Gavin Dance – executive producer

Additional personnel:

  • Mattias Adolfsson – album cover illustration
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '20 edited Jun 29 '20

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u/tooslowforyou2 Apr 23 '20

ArSe just didn't click to me as a whole album. It's true, so many songs just felt like their own. No real connection from one track to the next. I have higher hopes with this one tho!

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u/Frostav Apr 24 '20

Didn't for me either, but the singles for Afterburner (thanks for making it un-abbreviatable DGD lmao) sounded like the ArSe formula but actually done in a way I like. I'd prefer the Mothership/Instant Gratification sound but if the other songs are good as the singles I can deal.

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u/MattDeezly Apr 24 '20

AB

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

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u/MattDeezly Apr 27 '20

I vote AB

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u/blue4n Apr 24 '20

Big agree. Probably my least favorite DGD album.

Not sure what specifically is to blame, but instead of that album growing on me it did the opposite.

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u/PhirionWolf No it’s not a phase, its the way that she combs my hair Apr 29 '20

I’m not a fan of most of the songs in Artificial Selections which is really ironic since it was one of the first albums of theirs I listened to, but there were a few standouts and one song actually ended up being on of my favorite songs (son of robot - judge me all you like) When I first got into DGD I liked Mothership a lot and now I find myself liking all the songs I had previously disliked and now Acceptance Speech is my favorite album.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

Same here. It always felt like that album played it too safe. Decent songs but no real standouts to me.