Dance Gavin Dance - Acceptance Speech

You have to feel for Will Swan and Matt Mingus, Dance Gavin Dance’s guitarist and drummer, who by this stage have weathered approximately three billion line-up changes. However, what should be crippling instability highlights just how well the pair work together – ‘Acceptance Speech’ is a cracking record, its experimental post-hardcore including as many varied nuances as the band could pack into its running time. The sing-to-scream trick is a dead scene, but in DGD’s hands, they marry invigorating and venomous aggression to sublime passages, led by Tilian Pearson’s helium assisted vocals. Jonny who?