Jackpot Juicer
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Jackpot Juicer
Jackpot Juicer is the tenth full-length studio album by American rock band Dance Gavin Dance, released on July 29, 2022, on Rise Records. It serves as the follow-up to their ninth studio album, Afterburner (2020). Produced by Kris Crummett, the album was recorded at Interlace Audio in Portland, Oregon between April and July 2021 and is the band's longest album to date consisting of eighteen tracks and a runtime of one hour and three minutes. It is the band's first studio album to be credited as a sextet since Acceptance Speech (2013) as well as their first to feature Andrew Wells as an official member since joining as a touring guitarist in 2015. It is also their final release to feature bassist Tim Feerick who died on April 13, 2022 and the vocalist Tilian Pearson who left on June 3rd, 2022. -Wikipedia
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The Review Geek
Dance Gavin Dance tries to excel with their mix of styles. As always, the sound has its brilliant moments, and then sometimes repetitiveness creeps in. Jackpot Juicer isn’t the finest record from the band, but it has the songs to bolster their playlist.
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Sputnik Music
If you believe the statistics (please do), Jackpot Juicer is Dance Gavin Dance's longest record to date, a feat that speaks less to the inspirations of the band's creative process and much, much more to the sheer regurgitative banality of their formula. *examines review notes* add some shit about Tilian's overbearingly intense vocal inflections. Y'all know that. But if it ain't broke then for the love of God can somebody fucking break it.
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The Soundboard Reviews
It’s not good, purely on the basis that most of Dance Gavin Dance’s material isn’t, but with how much of an endeavour Jackpot Juicer is, even on a casual spin, it becomes even worse. Perhaps it’s best summed up when Pearson sings on the penultimate track Swallowed By Eternity, “It’s a miracle that I got this far”—you can say that again.
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Boolin Tunes
Despite some internal turmoil leading up to its release, and an (admittedly reasonable) amount of skepticism surrounding the album’s length, Jackpot Juicer might just be Dance Gavin Dance at their best. In spite of being a whopping 18 tracks, and over an hour in length, the seminal swancore outfit have crafted their most electrifying, consistent and varied release to date. The album’s runtime is a lot to ingest all in one go, but is made easier by much of the Swancore outfit’s very strongest material thus far. This is all owed to its core members, both new and old, truly hitting a peak of synergy (ha) and creativity on the record. It all feels so very bittersweet given the controversies and tragedies that have surrounded the band as of late, but whether Jackpot Juicer is a final send-off, or a glimpse into the band’s future, I don’t think they could have pulled it off better.
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Ghost Cult Magazine
Jackpot Juicer is a creative effort and with its extra long length, fans are going to get their money’s worth. When bands hit the double digits in album releases, the music tends to get a little stale but Dance Gavin Dance show that can still colberate and come up with new, intriguing and rocking tracks at this stage of their career.
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The New Fury
Dance Gavin Dance’s ‘Jackpot Juicer’ proves they’re a one-of-a-kind band.
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Rock N Heavy
Overall, Jackpot Juicer continues the unpredictability of the band. They held nothing back and wrote some killer tracks. Still, Dance Gavin Dance has become a one-trick pony, as a few instrumentals and vocal lines blend. Whatever is holding Dance Gavin Dance back, I hope they can address it and write an album a fan would love and amaze the band’s detractors.
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Wall of Sound
If you’ll excuse the high-school essay-type conclusion, when I look back at this record, I’m left with incredibly mixed feelings about Jackpot Juicer. It’s anything but a jackpot win. Taking stock, I only like about one-third of the total track-listing, and even then, while they’re quite fun, nothing lives up to the heights they’ve reached before: “Death Of A Strawberry” and “On The Run”; “The Frozen One” and “Head Hunter”; “Evaporate” and “Nothing Shameful.” I yearned for more Andrew Wells, on what is just a very predictable Dance Gavin Dance record with no new ground explored, and it’s also way too long. Meaning that I can only see their 10th album, despite its seldom brilliance, as an embattled and underwhelming long-haul, one whose creators will likely move on from it with haste.
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