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Veldin
September 11th 2025


5881 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Definitely their best work since Mothership and my personal favorite at the moment since Happiness. This band is a guilty pleasure for me, but there’s something that’s kept me listening for over 15 years. I really enjoy Andrews vocals, I think Jon Mess is doing some of his best work, and I find the instrumentals incredibly tight. There’s some occasional cringe like the oh-ohs in the opener or the “heartbeat, heartbeat, heartbeat” in Midnight at McGuffys, but nothing egregious. I personally think Jon’s auto tune in Space Cow Initiation fits. I was never huge on Tillian and actually stopped listening after Acceptance Speech for years but was very excited when a new vocalist was announced and found Andrew to be a great addition (Sergio too). I went into this with high hopes and my expectations were satisfied. I know a lot of people are still upset with the band for letting Tillian back into the band and that’s fair, but I hope those who have ever enjoyed this band in the past can give this new incarnation a shot, because it sounds like, on and off the record, the band is having a great time and doing well (alcohol free now). Alright I’ll stop ranting now. Great review, Pos’d

CatfishSoup
September 11th 2025


384 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This is pretty solid.



Starting with the negative, I wish Will Swan would drop his autotune rapping though. Space Cow starts off great, but the Clinton feature sucks. Andrew's voice is really good, but they layer it too much at times. Leave the grit man.



Otherwise this has some really great moments. Mess is super versatile and more of a frontman on this release. The drumming sounds really tight.

JayEnder
September 12th 2025


22710 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

A Shoulder to Cry On is unironically a banger.

Rowan5215
Emeritus
September 12th 2025


48421 Comments


Mess is fucking insane on this album, those high shrieks on Conqueror Worm are nuts

JayEnder
September 12th 2025


22710 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah this is... good I'm afraid



Most fun I've had with a DGD record since Mothership

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
September 12th 2025


115991 Comments


I see this hasn't turned into the official NBA thread yet.

GreyShadow
September 12th 2025


8086 Comments


nooooo i dont want this to be good, then i'll have to listen to it.

JayEnder
September 12th 2025


22710 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Its ok Grey, I was wrong. This is great.

GreyShadow
September 12th 2025


8086 Comments


fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, will check tomorrow
this, new sound of animals fighting, anything else??

hortanz
September 12th 2025


867 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

the other bad review is up for the nba megathread have fun there



I was also pleasantly surprised by this, I have been listening since the leak and it's grown a lot on me. haven't had excitement for DGD in a while so it was nice to be hyped up again. I saw them in may and it gave me a lot of hope for what's to come since they actually did the earlier parts of their discog again

Meborphus
September 12th 2025


442 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I am afraid to check this out. The sour taste is still in my mouth.

mattycakes95
September 12th 2025


12 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I listened to this a few times back when it leaked a few months ago, but i havent listened to the official release yet. My main memory of it is that the part where Andrew, Will, and Jon are trading screams in the Stickler is a highlight and a good example of what I was hoping this whole album would be like.

Lasssie
September 12th 2025


3528 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

A couple of surprisingly strong tracks on this

The singles apart from Mcguffeys are the weakest on this

GreyShadow
September 12th 2025


8086 Comments


yeah, i liked mcguffeys but hated the 2 after

OwMySnauze
September 12th 2025


2669 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

@greyshadow. New Lower Definition single, new Boys Night Out tune also.

GreyShadow
September 12th 2025


8086 Comments


I GOTTA CHECK LOWER D ASAP OMFGGGGGGGGG

fucking loved grief eater too when that dropped, glad there's finally more

Lasssie
September 12th 2025


3528 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

BROOOO

Jamdbz
September 13th 2025


1606 Comments


new lower definition wtf

VARYHARRYWAFFLE
October 16th 2025


75 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Andrew just sings outside his range way too much on this. Would like to hear something more tailor made to his strengths.

Lasssie
October 16th 2025


3528 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

LOWER DEFINITION???? ALBUM????



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