Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner (April 24th 2020) Album • Page 14

Album Review: Dance Gavin Dance - 'Afterburner' // Killyourstereo.com

 

My mouth is open wider than the time I had sex
I knew you'd do this, you're awesome, bitch

 

Sounds good, but 2x Will Swan rap verses and attack! attack! guy's "emo-rap" verse doesn't fill me with too much confidence

 

yeah I’m honestly dreading that

 

Wills rapping is always nice. Doesn’t ever take me out of a song

 

That and Bilmuri is a talented dude. No reason to freak out.

 

LET'S GOOOOO!!!

 

Oh fuck

 

Dammit, nothing worse the temptation of a 128 that'll half ruin the first listen

 

I’ll see y’all Friday

 

Having my first listen. This is clearly their tightest songwriting ever. Calentamiento Global is a weird fucking song though. I hope Tilian isn't just singing in spanish so he can get away with saying some conspiracy theory nonsense.

 

I have shitty speakers at work and won't notice a difference anyhow. Album's good but nothing will ever top Artificial Selection for me.

 

Their stuff usually grows on me but first listen I am not big on it. Want to see the lyrics for Born to Fail though just because sounds like could be all about Jonny right?!

 

what do you like about ArSe honestly

 

damn Parody Catharsis is SO good but Wills dumb verse fouls it up

 

Born to Fail has a callback to a Tides of Man vocal melody

pretty weird ha

 

Worst album closer they have ever put out.

 

Just finished it. I think it's a step above ArSe but not by a great amount. Hopefully it will grow on me, but I wasn't blown away.

 

I like 3 of the singles ALOT. that’s mostly all I know at this point. pretty weird album haha.

 

It is a very weird album, not as memorable at first, but I still think I like it a bit better than ArSe? Idk yet, it's gonna take a while.

 

I like this better than Mothership and Artificial Selection
Jon is better than ever
the insutrmentals feel fresh but also classic post-hardcore? like older than their influences have been in awhile.

 

the bridge on cantelimiento fucking rules

being in Spanish kinda feels like a dumb gimmick though

 

well from the singles I was expecting something consistent from this album but in reality it’s kind of a left turn. at the moment I think it’s sort of really a mixed bag qualitatively - but I think that’s kinda par for the course with the last 3 albums

 

This is solid. I feel like this band have consistently done almost the same sound for their entire career, and to be fair it is very much their sound. The only changes have been ones forced upon them by lineup changes really.

I like that this is a little different.

 

I have to agree with the above after skimming through... only about half or fewer of the tracks feel like rehashing the Tilian era.

I don't think I really enjoy the direction they took that much personally, but it was time for something different, so respect there.

Anyone who loves IG and their more ridiculous bops should be more than satisfied.