Happiness

by Dance Gavin Dance

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 June 2009
  • Label: Rise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:59
  • Community rating: 3.35/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Zac Garren, Jason Ellis, Will Swan, Kurt Travis, Matt Mingus

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Marking their only studio album to feature Kurt Travis as the sole clean vocalist and screamer Will Swan temporarily handling harsh vocal duties, this record is a wildly eclectic post-hardcore milestone. The album heavily infuses their frantic, math-rock-inspired riffing with prominent funk grooves, R&B melodies, and incredibly danceable basslines. It codified the uniquely technical, chaotic subgenre that would later be dubbed 'Swancore'.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, technical, intricate, funky, rhythmic, eccentric

Tracklist

  1. Tree Village (3:21)
  2. NASA (3:35)
  3. I'm Down With Brown Town (3:01)
  4. Carl Barker (5:13)
  5. Happiness (3:30)
  6. Self-Trepanation (3:13)
  7. Strawberry Swisher, Pt. 1 (3:28)
  8. Don't Tell Dave (3:17)
  9. Strawberry Swisher, Pt. 2 (3:06)
  10. Powder To The People (5:11)

Credits

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