Dance Gavin Dance - Jackpot Juicer (July 29, 2022) Album • Page 68

Happiness is fucking goated

 

Yeah I wish they followed that direction for longer.

 

Kurt was such a perfect fit for the funkier direction they pursued on Happiness

 

It isn’t my favorite anymore (acceptance speech or mothership probably take that for me now) but it’s definitely going to go down as one of the most unique late 00s rise records albums

 

Deathstar and Happiness is peak DGD.

 

I'M DOWN WITH BROWN TOWWWWN

 

Funny this thread got bumped today bc I was just gonna tell you about the only remotely good DGD-type band doing it rn and somehow they only have 200 monthly listeners and their music video has like 20 views. But holy shit they are great

 

I don't know, I think there are plenty of progressive/experimental post-hardcore (or swancore) bands out there at the moment doing their own thing.

If you're after something relatively underground though I'd recommend Blight Town who are from the UK.

 

If this thread is gonna temporarily turn into "Post other 'swancore' bands you like" then:

 

I like what I’ve heard from pulses

 

not to be all “I still listen to this band who gives a fuck!!!” because I totally get why people don’t anymore and I didn’t for a long time but I did recently revive my master playlist for my car since I just got a car for the first time in a while and I associate their music with summer and nostalgia is a hell of a drug, anyway while I do very much enjoy listening to their old stuff it just highlights what a shame it is I’ll likely never care about them again and everything else they do is just naturally gonna sound bad to my ears. I have a few jackpot juicer songs on the playlist since I think just a select few are insanely good tracks but I just cant listen to any of those one offs they’ve done since even the ones without tilian. It’s not even that I’m like mad or upset that they’re still around that I just….dont care about them? Like they could come out tomorrow and admit to everything they’ve done wrong and put out a solid plan to make right on the last 10+ years of cultivating a horrible culture amongst their inner circle and their fan base and I still think I’d be completely ambivalent to their continued existence.

 

Not sure where else to share Kurt news. Lol

 

Might have to attend

 

Great album

 

Digging this a lot

 

Even apart from all the issues, man does Tillian suck with this band - he’s such a stratospheric vocalist that it actively distracts from the music around him

I really dig The Ghost of Billy Royalton but every moment it gets good, there’s Tillian helium wailing for no reason

Not a loss

 

Not sure what this is all about

 

Best part is when he inadvertently throws the rest of the band under the bus for not being able to sing harmonies haha

 

How’s that amicable split going lol

 

Saw someone share these in the replies.

 

I guess Tilian's wife has been consistently one of the shit stirrers on the dgd sub reddit (not that they needed any help) but also despite how typical it is to say " __________ dgd vocalist sucks" Andrew Wells still got offended.

 

Ik this band doesn’t need defending and I haven’t listened since the Tilian fallout, but fwiw I did catch their set while waiting for black veil brides (ik ik, I felt gross going to this tour, but I’d wanted to see BVB and bought a cheap secondhand ticket to not support) and Andrew sounded phenomenal. diverse setlist too. I did not think popular scene bands were capable of filling sets with deep cuts like that, let alone an opener set.

 

Andrew is an awesome vocalist.

I watched a podcast with him recently and he came across as a passionate dude who truly cares about the music he’s making.

Controversies aside, I’m glad that he’s fronting this band now because his vocals suit this band better IMO

 

I thought he still declined to front the band? Weren’t they saying something about working with different vocalists? I still listen, but don’t really follow them much anymore, so I might’ve missed if they said something.

 

In the podcast I listened to, Andrew stated that the band only wanted to continue on if he was fronting it so he agreed despite being hesitant to.