This Album is Good But... | Artificial Selection - Dance Gavin Dance (Full Album Reaction/Review)

[@blackpker124]

Damn, kind of disappointed you didn’t enjoy this album, at least the initial listen. It’ll probably grow on you because this album has straight bangers.

[@RUNTY_OW]

I can tell you now (torwards the end of 2021) that it has grown on me

[@blackpker124]

@@RUNTY_OW im happy to hear! :D

[@herby_milk]

@@RUNTY_OW I personally didn't like this album either. There was 3 good songs in my opinion. I started listening to them with inspire the liars and we own the night being my first listens. And then I listened to their older stuff and I love DBM2 and Happiness. I noticed you also enjoyed DBM2 aswell

[@streetrat123]

Interesting, this is one of my favorite albums. Count Bassy is incredible.

[@ricardoalmeida7805]

He did brother. He just wasn't caught off-guard like on the other ones. Even if I think this one of the weaker albums that means that it's only god tier and not omega god tier know what I mean?

[@dgmotorsportsnetwork3580]

Ending of Evaporate lyrically throwsback to their past discography Step back let go/I believe there’s meaning - Surprise! I’m from Cuba from DTBM Should have listened to your friends/over this by now - Me and Zoloft Get Along from self-titled (deathstar) I’m found - and I told them I invented times new Roman from DTBM Who drains the blood - acceptance speech from acceptance speech Repeat repeat our history - tree village from Happiness What excuses do you make - Tree village from Happiness We own the night - We own the night from instant gratification For one good note - The Backwards Pumpkin song from DTBM Well don’t it feel good/ you got what you paid for - Alex English from self-titled

[@blacktoblack7292]

shut up zach

[@upthereds1892]

The Rattler is just a secret band song in the middle of a dgd album and I love it.

[@BukkuCSouls]

The Holy Trio - The Jiggler The Cuddler The Rattler

[@biggangsterdaddy7618]

and evaporate and shelf life both had features, shelf life being kurt Travis from the old dgd Era of happiness and self titled, evaporate being Andrew wells from eidola and their touring guitarist

[@Miguel-xj5pg]

Fun fact but a lot of “instruments” you hear, like the “synth” in Count Bassy is just will Swan doing something weird on his guitar

[@2xRainb0w]

Bloodsucker is the only song in the entirety of their discography that didn’t involve will swan in the writing process. Evaporate has a medley of old dgd songs at the end of it. You probably recognised we own the night.

[@instrumentalist1294]

It's ironic because blood sucker is my favorite song off of artificial selection.

[@seteliseppo8803]

@@instrumentalist1294 By far mine too. Only other songs that are somewhat close are midnight crusade and evaporate for me.

[@instrumentalist1294]

@@seteliseppo8803 Yeah those are both good. Evaporate has a free bee almost for cross generational dance gavin dance fans. Midnight crusade is just a pop hit through and through so I definitely vibe with that too. Will say that I feel artificial selection is a bottom tier album for me at the end of the day though.

[@joshyang2112]

all the dance gavin dance-involved bands i can think of off the top of my head: -a lot like birds (kurt travis joined for two albums after he left dgd) -royal coda (kurt's current band, also has will swan as a guitarist) -wolf & bear (tim feerick plays bass) -sianvar (will swan plays guitar alongside donovan melero, who's the lead singer/drummer for hail the sun) -eidola (dgd has pulled andrew wells, the lead singer of eidola, into the band as a live musician and he features vocals on some dgd songs) -secret band (when dgd kicked jonny craig the second time they made an ep with just screams, then later made two full length albums) -hail the sun doesn't have any shared band members, but they're the same genre and often tour with dgd, they're all buds -slaves no longer has jonny craig (surprise he was kicked out) but they managed to make two albums with jc and their most recent one with matt mcandrew is still really good -emarosa used to be metalcore, then transitioned to post-hardcore when jonny craig joined, and now they're like an 80's inspired pop band with their current singer. highly recommend you listen to their entire discography -also all three of dgd's lead singers have their own solo careers. tilian makes pop rock stuff, kurt just does whatever he feels like (i don't know how to describe his music), jonny does rnb

[@lessur]

just a heads up, slaves had three albums and an EP with JC :)

[@joshyang2112]

@@lessur oh that's right, i like completely removed beautiful death from my memory somehow. gonna go listen to that again

[@astari_1014]

@@joshyang2112 a little late to this but i have to add Gold Necklace(kurt), tides of man(tillian), nova charisma(donovan/sergio), Stolas(sergio), isles and glaciers(jonny craig), dwellings( like you said with hail the sun, no sharing members but a huge inspiration from them. also from sacremento!), Strawberry Girls(Zac Garren)

[@doomkid02]

​@@astari_1014 Gold Necklace is so good!!!

[@biggangsterdaddy7618]

dance gavin dance has become very experimental which some people like and some people miss the older dgd stuff I just take it as new music to listen and enjoy to :)

[@osmarbravo4693]

First comment, good vibes from Mexico🇲🇽🤘🏾

[@Osmarbadom97]

Hola tocayo jeje

[@osmarbravo4693]

@@Osmarbadom97 que onda jajaja

[@erthquake9038]

If you like Evaporate, PLEASE give Eidola a listen. Andrew Wells is the other singer in that song, and Eidola is his band. He absolutely kills it. All of their albums are top notch, and I'd feel comfortable recommending them to anyone.

[@Mandibularmenace]

I still maintain that this album and Mothership are the best Tillian-era albums

[@SequenceBreaker64]

They said in interviews/posts after release that a good section of this album was written to be singles initially, and then they moved into making it a full album. A lot of people's initial thoughts was that DGD was going a bit more pop/clean, when in reality I'm assuming it just happened to be what songs they had written before deciding to make it an album.

[@africanCandy]

That was Andrew Green (Eidola) on the last track. You should also listen the 3 bonus tracks 3 singles and the 2 covers they've done for your last video.

[@jocollinson9904]

Andrew Wells, are you thinking of Anthony Green?

[@africanCandy]

@@jocollinson9904omg yeah. I've been at work all night😂

[@truly_I_say]

I swear this is one of those albums where the more you listen to it straight through the better it gets. I go as far to say that this has more good songs on it than any other album.. not the best songs but just the quantity of good songs. Like I don't ever skip a single song going through this album.

[@luisl1180]

so funny looking back at this and remembering runty thought Andrew's vocals were tilians 😂 54:37

[@Kaleb35]

A tiny bit disappointed you didn't exactly realize it was Kurt's voice in Shelf Life and all the other references in Evaporate in the ending. But yes this album was very different so I could imagine trying to notice everything but also be thrown off by the new feel they made here. But I think that makes It better in the aspect of they have a general "DGD Genre". I feel they pulled this album off quite well because all of these songs, in my opinion, are great. Also id like to note that the guitar work in Mothership stands out quite a bit and I feel that the Bass work in this album stands out quite a bit as well, along with the drum work in Acceptance Speech and their Afterburner Album. But yeah I'm not tryna give you shit about how to react to something, I like your dgd reactions so far and you just seem very calm and accepting about their style which is nice. But I'm glad you actually listen to the instruments and not just hear screaming and dive away from it. Good shit.

[@jasg7894]

If you like the chill parts of Shelf Life, check out Kurt Travis's solo album from last year, "There's a Place I Want to Take You". It's all in this style.

[@calebsullivan8220]

totally solid review. not a terrible album, has some really breathtaking moments nonetheless. hopefully you'll love afterburner, I think a lot of DGD fans love it regardless of what era they prefer. after these guys, you should definitely check out Hail the Sun, very similar stuff to DGD. keep doing what you're doing bro :)

[@nehemiasgonzalez6989]

This is their most accessible album

[@nehemiasgonzalez6989]

I personally think Afterburner is their best album. Production and Mixing is at its peak, bust its also more experimental than this album but it also has that signature dgd vibes

[@iknowyouband]

Honestly it’s impossible to explain until you listen to it. It’s incredible. I’m excited to see how he reacts lol

[@instrumentalist1294]

For some reason Afterburner didn't hit with me, I'll always be a mothership guy. It's the only album where I can honestly say I saved every song and could listen to it all the way through no problem.

[@lalunaire5882]

im so ready for afterburner bro..

[@boshjohnson]

56:17 "Oh this reminds me of another song" lmao

[@zachgoodnite]

Made me chuckle 🤭

[@ajsalazar1526]

Please do tree city sessions with Tillians redo of the older songs !!!!!!!!

[@FloridaMan2727]

You gotta react to knocked loose! Their discography starting with pop culture!

[@lotusnaturals1897]

that one singer on Shelf Life is Kurt Travis btw, singer in self titled and Happiness!

[@AFewAnts]

Flash is my favorite from this album, John’s parts about the mom makes me tear up for some reason 😂

[@kurizmuhOKC]

OH, THIS REMINDS ME OF ANOTHER SONG!

[@biggangsterdaddy7618]

blood sucker has always been my favorite off this album :)

[@truly_I_say]

Dude bloodsucker is some of jons best work imho. We don't usually get to hear him dominate a track like this. Only other song that I feel he has this amount of presence is "Say Hi" on AB. His "uh uh HI" portion is one of my favorite parts of any song they've ever done up there with Andrew Wells part on nothing shameful

[@dandi-setiawan622]

My favorite band 😍🤘🏼🔥

[@keldricharts]

Artificial Selection wasnt as memorable as other albums. As you said, a lot of experimentation was done here. Still good songs, but i skip a couple just to get to the good ones.

[@El-ingobernable]

@56:18 lol Well you see..... This song should remind you of like 6 different DGD songs

[@zachgoodnite]

Andrew Wells 🥰 anything he touches is just “chefs kiss” eidola 😍😍

[@fridayjuniorjuniorfrizzle9272]

Start doing these live and recording them

[@EmilianoSoca]

This album has its own moments, but nothing really impressive as the last albums. It has some good songs, but others that are just meh, not bad, just meh. Even tho, the experimentation was remarkable. But as all their albums, there is some growing on this one, in rythms, in guitar sounds, in techniques, in writing, producing, etc. Also in this album the dynamic between the two singers return. I consider it as a chill breather after all the disaster and chaos of Mothership. And then Afterburner appeared.

[@windmillsonthemoon586]

Love this album! You should definitely check out A Lot Like Bird’s discography. After Kurt Travis left DGD he joined with them and created some masterpiece albums. Him and Cory Lockwood bounce back and forth on scream/sing duties and it’s beautiful

[@alexisabot9924]

The first half is definitely more laid back and chill than the second

[@kennedyfiggdrums]

Can’t wait for you to check out Afterburner. Such a good album. (They just got done recording album number 10)

[@dancegregorydance6933]

Honestly one of their albums that I go back to the least. Though I’d still place it in the top half of their albums. Not a bad album, very different compared to the rest of their work. The guys experimented again with Afterburner and were way more successful, in my opinion.

[@Eggyyolks]

This album is so much better than Afterburner.

[@dancegregorydance6933]

I agree with you now lol. I was listening to Afterburner a lot at the time. Slowly Afterburner has settled to the middle of their albums. It’s good but a pot of it didn’t stick long term. I can’t see myself listening tracks off it too often.

[@M_reapr]

This easily tilians best album

[@Janthonythegreat]

I refer to this as the emo album, the most easily suggestible, but I always thought it was weird, never really stuck with me. Bloodsucker is a top 5 song for me though

[@Eggyyolks]

This is by far their best album, not even close.

[@richard6200]

imo this album aged better than mothership

[@biggangsterdaddy7618]

BTW bro ur discord link is expired

[@_tokii__]

I didn't like Artificial Selection on my first listen, just a select few. But after giving it more time I started to like it a lot more, and appreciate all the experimentation DGD was going for.

[@scual760]

Orale!

[@Kaleb35]

Tilian (TILLI--AN) tilian (TILL-E-AN) tilian (tilian) pronunciation

[@eyewhittness3012]

This is probably my least favorite of their albums besides their self-titled one. Afterburner is really good, and I think you should consider reacting to their Tree City Sessions albums as well. They remix/remaster some of their top songs from all their albums!

[@eyewhittness3012]

(They're also live albums)

[@SlashWest]

I dont personally like this album, and I love all of their albums except for Deathstar (though that one depends on my mood). Im happy for people who love it but this album is really offputting to me for some reason Edit: except for Evaporate. Love that song, especially the first 45 seconds and the ending section

[@neverever1270]

dgd is aggressive cancer, it just grows on you more and more. I can't think of a single song i dont like from any album they've done

[@TheMangerChild]

This is how I feel. Even my least favorite of theirs I still love.