History Music / DanceGavinDance

!!!The Tilian Pearson Era (2012-present)

On April 14th, 2022, bassist Tim Feerick passed away.

Eventually Kurt Travis and Jason Ellis were kicked out of the band so the band could reunite with their original lineup (minus guitarist Sean O'Sullivan). Jonny Craig and Jon Mess were again the singers of Dance Gavin Dance. In reference to this reunion, they named the album they released during this era ''Downtown Battle Mountain II'' though to what extent the album is an actual sequel to their debut LP is debatable. It may have had the same lineup, but the style of music played on DBM2 is significantly more influenced by soul compared with DBM1's more straightforward post-hardcore sound, and Jon Mess's lyrics on DBM2 are at their most nonsensical. This era couldn't last long though, as Jonny clashed with every member of the band, as well as many record label officials. Jonny's drug habit also made members very uncomfortable, and it was agreed that Jonny would leave the band a second time.

* OverlyLongTitle: "And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman", "Turn Off The Lights I'm Watching Back To The Future", "Surprise! I'm From Cuba, Everyone Has One Brain", and "The Robot Vs The Heroin Battle Of Vietnam" to name a few.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jon Mess's part of Stroke God, Millionaire is about this.
--> ''We all came here just to fap''

[[caption-width-right:350:He wrote the script on getting you out of your dress]]

* GenreBusting: They were the first band to truly mix post-hardcore and R&B. See NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly for more.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Practically the embodiment of this trope. They can be roughly described as post-hardcore heavily influenced by math rock,R&B, soul, progressive rock, funk, jazz, emo, screamo, and even disco.

* Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean [EP] (2006)
* Downtown Battle Mountain (2007)
* Dance Gavin Dance (2008)
* Happiness (2009)
* Downtown Battle Mountain II (2011)
* Acceptance Speech (2013)
* Instant Gratification (2015)
* Mothership (2016)
* Artificial Selection (2018)
* Afterburner (2020)

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Part of the fun of Dance Gavin Dance is how they can go from 3 to 7 to 1 to 10 to 6 in the same song.

--> ''Then you're right in sah dah getti fah da getti tah the betti tah righ''

Jonny was replaced by former Tides Of Man singer Tilian Pearson, and in 2013 they released their fifth album ''Acceptance Speech''. There was a mild controversy surrounding the album's production, with fans claiming it was sloppily done, that the bass was inaudible, and that Tilian's voice was autotuned. All of these criticisms were addressed in their 2015 album ''Instant Gratification'' which was, in many ways, a converging of all the different styles Dance Gavin Dance has had in the past decade, and remains one of their most well-received albums to date. The recording process was reportedly so easy that on December 23 of the same year, Rise Records confirmed that Dance Gavin Dance would release their next studio album in 2016. ''Mothership'', the band's seventh full-length, was finally released on October 7. Studio album #8, which is titled ''Artificial Selection'', is set to land June 8, 2018.

** This gem from Chocolate Jackalope:
--> '''I COULDN'T WAIT TO TAP INTO THE BRAIN OF MY CAT, AND LET HIM KNOW HE'S MY WIDDLE BABY MEOW MEOW BOO!'''

* LyricalDissonance: Honey Revenge, a sweet and upbeat song about a stalker.