Dance Gavin Dance - Jackpot Juicer (July 29, 2022) Album • Page 65

But they could just be good people. That's what blows my mind. So much talent. So little morals.

 

I thought the weird digital sounding sheen on the clean vocals was just a Tillian thing, i don't understand why they think that sounds good.

I listened to part of an interview with Andrew it seemed like it boiled down to "this is a business and we have to make money just be the singer"

 

These are kind of weird, Speed Demon makes it hard for me to tell if that was even Andrew, the vocals are really far back in the mix. Felt like him trying to sing like Tilian when I could hear it.

 

Andrew says these are stop gap songs for the fans and the future is uncertain if he’s taking over the lead. Songs are meh, I haven’t liked any of the non album singles since jackpot juicer. They can keep treading the same ground they covered on every album they did with tilian all they want but it’s boring as fuck

 

I said this on twitter the other day but everything from the last few years and then looking back on some of their previous decisions a decade plus ago paints the picture of a band run by someone (Will) who is literally only concerned with making money. Running a middle of the road post hardcore band like a business is so corny but now I understand why their sound has stagnated so much and their music just lacks soul and heart now. It’s assembly line mass produced slop.

 

three years ago they were my favorite band and while the tilian stuff and a few other things I heard about other members and the culture surrounding the band doesn’t help, im just bored of it I have no problem listening to other “problematic” bands in my own time but im really over it with DGD

 

They also had a full album of material recorded with Tillian that I'm wondering if they just scrapped entirely. Likely would've just ended up sounding like the last 4 albums anyway.

 

That’s why tilian got the boot, not the predatory behavior. I guarantee they were working on a new album and it was the same old shit.

 

I like Billy Royalton or w/e the track is but I thought War Machine was just ok and these last 2 are mid

 

Um

 

Keep bayside out of this

 

nothing evenly remotely interesting going on or being said.

 

Wade feels like a Tillian burner account more and more lol

 

the difference is bayside makes good music

 

it’s so funny when people try to do whataboutism and list bands way better than the band in question

 

Yeah I'd say its broke, they've been stale for like 4/5 albums now even if I ignore how much I disliked Tillian's voice. The new songs sound like more of the same with a slightly better vocalist. I'd rather just listen to Eidola.

 

Their albums felt distinctively different from each other up until Mothership. I feel like the latter, especially with its longer runtime, was them squeezing the last drop of creative juice out of their core sound. Everything they've done since has sounded like DGD on autopilot.

I actually find those two songs to be better than I expected on the instrumental front. Eidola dude sounds Jonny Craig on DBM2 levels of bored on the second one though and their discography remains tainted for me anyway.

 

love straight from the heart
hate this band

 

I think the songs sound decent. If a new band came out with these musically and vocally it'd be super hyped. People are just down on them overall and sonically they don't feel that new for the band,

 

These singles definitely still sound akin to the Tilian era stuff, but for me I’m okay with that because I enjoyed Tilian era DGD but can’t really stomach listening to Tilian’s voice much (if at all) at this point.

 

yes if the songs were released in an entirely different context people would receive them differently how is that a novel concept? this isn’t hypothetical land this is the real world where dgd released these songs and they’re super weak.

 

Mothership is the last great full album. Artificial selection comes close but it has such a fucking terrible middle section it’s insane. Afterburner is just boring as sin outside of maybe 3 or 4 tracks and jackpot juicer has a strong front half and a borderline unlistenable second half. Mothership was the last one I could listen to all the way through.

 

if they were a new band I would just think they were bad DGD rip offs.

 

Also I really liked the last eidola album but the new one was not very good at all. The djent style they explore felt super unnecessary and poorly done.

 

I’m not going to go all revisionist history on Tilian DGD, because I loved it, even if I thought each album had some slogs/flaws. Jackpot Juicer was the first I viewed somewhat negatively, and I really doubt I would if it wasn’t for Tilian’s actions. I still think that was a lot of output without a ton of variation, and I would’ve been cool if they moved on from Tilian say, after ArSe. It’s hard to look back and view it without taking into account his actions though, because some of his lyrics are suspect at best, and extremely creepy. Thinking Lost, Honey Revenge, Bloodsucker, and some others I’m sure.