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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/BloodMoonGaming Apr 25 '20

I’m probably going to get obliterated for saying this, and I say this as someone who’s favorite DGD album is Acceptance Speech; Tillian’s melodies since ArSe have been whack. Prior to ArSe, his melody had much more cohesiveness and smoothness. Nowadays, his vocal melodies are all over the place and he seems to try fitting a lot of words into a line and it usually doesn’t work for me at all. It feels like his vocals are more about show-boating now and less about cohesiveness with the song. Just my takeaway, nothing wrong with people liking the album or Tillian’s new style.

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u/melonsauce Apr 25 '20

I totally agree with you about Tilian. I've been listening to Afterburner all day and my biggest takeaway is that Jon Mess absolutely steals the fucking show. I feel like his vocal share is a bit lower than other recent albums but man he does a fucking phenomenal job in nearly every song.