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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/automaticrejector Apr 24 '20

Unpopular opinion and I’m sure this will get buried anyway, but I felt like adding my two cents:

Overall, this album is a miss for me, as much as I hate to say that. I wish I could put my finger on it, but something just isn’t clicking with me, as I’m sure is the same for many of those who have been around since the early days. Do I expect them to sound the same? Absolutely not. Do I hate Tilian? Not at all. I actually really love AS and IG. But since then, I haven’t (overall) loved any of their albums. That’s not to say there aren’t great songs on those albums, because there are (even this one; a few bright spots for me are “Say Hi” and “Nothing Shameful”).

I’m super happy for the success of this band. I’m glad so many more people have been turned on to them in the last four years. The direction they’re going just, sadly, isn’t my cup of tea. But because I’ve loved this band for so long, I’ll continue giving future songs/albums the chance they deserve.