Music

Happiness 2009

rock, post-hardcore, swancore 37 min 10 tracks Rise Records

Happiness is the third studio album by American rock band Dance Gavin Dance, released on June 9, 2009, on Rise Records. It is the band's second consecutive, and final, studio album to feature Kurt Travis on clean vocals and Zachary Garren on guitar, and is their only studio album to not feature screaming vocalist Jon Mess, who left the group in 2008 before returning in 2010.

rock post-hardcore swancore

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Character

Contemporary, spare, character-led and classical in form.

contemporarynostalgic
sparerichly built

Tracks

1Tree Village3:22
2NASA3:35
3I’m Down With Brown Town3:01
4Carl Barker5:13
5Happiness3:30
6Self‐Trepanation3:13
7Strawberry Swisher Pt. 13:28
8Don’t Tell Dave3:17
9Strawberry Swisher Pt. 23:06
10Powder to the People5:11

10 tracks, 37 minutes.

About the album

Artist: Dance Gavin Dance
Label: Rise Records
Released: June 9, 2009
Type: Album
Format: CD
Country: US

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