Afterburner (Dance Gavin Dance album)

Afterburner
Studio album by
Dance Gavin Dance
ReleasedApril 24, 2020
RecordedAugust–October 2019
StudioInterlace Audio, Portland, Oregon
Genre
Length48:38
LabelRise
Producer
Dance Gavin Dance chronology
Artificial Selection
(2018) 		Afterburner
(2020) 		Tree City Sessions 2
(2020)
Singles from Afterburner
  1. "Prisoner"
    Released: February 21, 2020
  2. "Strawberry's Wake"
    Released: March 12, 2020
  3. "Lyrics Lie"
    Released: April 9, 2020
  4. "Three Wishes"
    Released: April 16, 2020
  5. "One In A Million"
    Released: July 14, 2020

Afterburner is the ninth full-length studio album by American rock band Dance Gavin Dance. Released on April 24, 2020, on Rise Records, the album serves as a follow-up to the group's eighth studio album, Artificial Selection (2018). Recording sessions for the album took place over a three-month period between August and October 2019 with producer Kris Crummett at Interlace Audio in Portland, Oregon, while the vocals were recorded with producer Drew Fulk in Los Angeles, California. The album is considered a musical progression for the band, as the group experimented with funk, Latin, rap, and metalcore which accompanied their post-hardcore and experimental rock styles. It is the group's final studio album to be released during bass guitarist Tim Feerick's lifetime before his death in April 2022.[1]

In support of the album, the band released the lead single, "Prisoner", on February 21, 2020. The second single, "Strawberry's Wake", was released on March 12. Two more singles, "Lyrics Lie" and "Three Wishes," were released in April. The album debuted at number 14 on the US Billboard 200, with 24,000 copies sold in its first week. Originally, the group announced a 2020 spring tour in support of the album to take place in North America and Europe, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] They embarked on the Afterburner Tour which took place in September and October 2021 with support from Polyphia, Veil of Maya, Eidola and Wolf & Bear.[3] An instrumental version of the album was released to digital and streaming services on December 25, 2021.[4]

  1. ^ "Dance Gavin Dance Bassist Tim Feerick Has Died". Loudwire.
  2. ^ Dance Gavin Dance [@DGDtheband] (March 12, 2020). "https://t.co/HKBcrV8xnU" (Tweet). Archived from the original on March 17, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2021 – via Twitter.
  3. ^ Dance Gavin Dance [@DGDtheband] (June 29, 2020). "https://t.co/GCHInqWUOp" (Tweet). Archived from the original on June 29, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2021 – via Twitter.
  4. ^ "Afterburner (Instrumental)". Spotify. April 24, 2020.