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thehumgoesonforever replied to the thread Dance Gavin Dance - Pantheon (September 12, 2025).

This is easily their best album since Mothership. I genuinely don’t get how any long-time DGD fan wouldn’t be on board with Andrew. The dude is insanely versatile. He’s got Jonny’s rasp and R&B-style runs, Kurt’s flowing melodic sensibility, and when he pushes into his upper range, he even channels some Tilian. He can pull off every era of the band, and he kills it on this record. A lot of the criticism I’ve seen about him not standing out feels more like a mixing issue than anything else. It’s like they’re hesitant to put him front and center. There are killer melodies all over the album, but Andrew’s often buried under Jon’s yell/sing/scream thing or just sitting too low in the mix. And in the Trap Door video, he's not even featured all that much. I get that they said Jon is the frontman now, but there aren’t fewer clean vocals on this record than in past ones. It kind of feels like they’re trying to downplay the vocalist change instead of owning it. If they had just fully leaned into the switch and let Andrew shine, I think most people would’ve accepted it without hesitation.