Dance Gavin Dance - Pantheon (September 12, 2025) • Page 7

I don't think anyone posting in here has been unaware of the situation lol, it's been mentioned a lot (as it should be). we're in here discussing a leak, it's not like anyone is financially supporting the band by doing that

 

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.

 

they would have been better off going with no clean vocals on this album imo. andrew is terrible.

 

just let jon do cleans and screams.

 

I think the three official singles are incredible. Can’t stop listening to them and made a deep dive into all the different lineups more enjoyable. Andrew is good (nothing shameful had me at hello), I’m sure they are just trying to be distinctly different than the Tillian clean vocal focused albums of the past. Jackpot showed they needed a big change regardless.

Most anticipated album for me along with YC, TSL, Silverstein, Hot Mulligan and maybe Broadside. 2025 is trying for a hell of a 2005 impression.

 

pretty happy with this, not their best by any means but after years of tilian I'm glad to have something different again. doesn't hold a candle to DBM2 or happiness and not sure anything ever will since they still more or less fell into standard song structures again and there are too many instances of layered vocals.

but I will probably be listening to this and have more of this stuck in my head than any of the albums since acceptance speech lol. not to say I didn't like any of them, there are definitely good songs throughout that tenure, but it felt much more predictable and samey as things kept going. wasn't really huge on mothership but commercially it was successful and felt like they 'sold out' following the mothership hype

having fun with this though

 

I've listened to it a handful of times. I keep coming back to A Should to Cry On and All the Way Down... nothing else.

 

space cow has me

 

Y'all are really making me want to listen to this lol. Where does everyone rank this album? Mothership and self titled are my favorite and Jackpot Juicer is at the very bottom, where would you guys personally put it? I have the discography on vinyl but haven't pre-ordered this yet because 1. JJ was a letdown and 2. First two singles didn't sell me on it and 3. Not *completely* sold on Andrew yet.

 

It’s hard to definitively rank it this early on, but I think I’d probably put it right about in the middle of their discography.

 

For me it’s bottom half and mothership is my favorite. I don’t see myself coming back to it. Maybe 7th or 8th in their disco for me currently.

 

Hmmm. Maybe I should listen before deciding to order the vinyl lol.

 

Seeing some talk that there’s a b-side/bonus track called “Gingivitis” that some people already have their hands on.

 

I enjoy listening to Pantheon more than any of the Tilian era albums. DBM2 and Happiness are my all time favorite DGD albums, followed by Death Star and DBM1.

 

right there with you