Downtown Battle Mountain

Downtown Battle Mountain
Studio album by Dance Gavin Dance
Released	May 15, 2007
Recorded	January–February 2007
Genre	Post-hardcore
Length	40:05
Label	Rise
Producer	Kris Crummett
Dance Gavin Dance chronology
Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean (2006) Downtown Battle Mountain (2007) Dance Gavin Dance (2008)
Singles from Dance Gavin Dance

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk	(80%)[1]
Allmusic	[2]
Kerrang!
Punknews.org	[3]

Downtown Battle Mountain is the debut studio album by American post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Dance, released on May 15, 2007. It was produced by Kris Crummett, who mastered their EP Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean. The songs "And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman", "Lemon Meringue Tie" and "The Backwards Pumpkin Song" were released on February 22, 2007 on the band's MySpace, and "Open Your Eyes and Look North" was released on their PureVolume site. This was the last Dance Gavin Dance album to have Sean O'Sullivan on guitar, and the only full length album to have Jonny Craig on vocals, until his rejoining in 2010.

A sequel to the album, entitled Downtown Battle Mountain II, was released on March 8, 2011.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Untitled"	0:48
2.	"And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman"	4:48
3.	"It's Safe to Say You Dig the Backseat"	5:14
4.	"Strawberry André"	3:13
5.	"Lemon Meringue Tie"	3:51
6.	"The Backwards Pumpkin Song"	4:06
7.	"Antlion"	3:19
8.	"Turn Off the Lights, I'm Watching Back to the Future"	3:59
9.	"Open Your Eyes and Look North"	4:29
10.	"Surprise! I'm from Cuba, Everyone Has One Brain"	4:54
11.	"12 Hours, 630 Miles"	1:23
Total length:		40:05

Personnel

Dance Gavin Dance^[4]

• Jonny Craig - clean vocals
• Jonathan Mess - screamed vocals
• Will Swan - guitar
• Sean O'Sullivan - guitar
• Eric Lodge - bass guitar
• Matt Mingus - drums, percussion

Additional personnel^[5]

• Kris Crummett - production, engineering, mixing, mastering
• Mattias Adolfsson - artwork

Charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Billboard Top Heatseekers[6]	46

References

1. ^ "Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain - Album Review". AbsolutePunk. http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=908192. 
2. ^ "Downtown Battle Mountain - Dance Gavin Dance". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1058992. 
3. ^ "Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain". Punknews.org. http://www.punknews.org/review/6434. 
4. ^ Allmusic: Dance Gavin Dance Biography
5. ^ ArtistDirect: Downtown Battle Mountain Review
6. ^ "Billboard.com". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/album/dance-gavin-dance/downtown-battle-mountain/933370. Retrieved 2009-08-28.