Downtown Battle Mountain II is the fourth studio album by American post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band Dance Gavin Dance

Dance Gavin Dance

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, released on March 8, 2011.

The album is not a direct continuation of the band's first album Downtown Battle Mountain

Downtown Battle Mountain

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...

, but features the same line-up that recorded the first album (except for Sean O'Sullivan) as original members Jonny Craig

Jonny Craig

Jonathan Monroe Craig is a Canadian-American singer. He is currently the lead vocalist for the band Dance Gavin Dance, and former vocalist of the bands Emarosa and Ghost Runner on Third. He has an eponymous solo project, with which he has released one studio album and a live album to date...

, Jonathan Mess and Eric Lodge all rejoined the band in 2010. It was produced by Kris Crummett

Kris Crummett

Kris Crummett is a Portland, OR based record producer who is largely associated with the label Rise Records. He is the owner and operator of Interlace Audio studio....

, who produced the band's previous albums. The Hot Topic exclusive edition includes 2 bonus tracks (People You Knew and Perfect), as well as the whole Downtown Battle Mountain album as a bonus disc.

The album was leaked on March 3, 2011, approximately one week before its release. To combat the leak, Rise Records

Rise Records

-History:Rise was founded in 1991 by Craig Ericson in Roseburg, Oregon. He released a small number of 7" records before putting the label on hiatus to attend college. Ericson didn't release anything further until 1999, after moving to Portland, Oregon. He began issuing small-print 7" records, and...

 uploaded the album in its entirety to YouTube

YouTube

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. The album debuted at number 82 on the Billboard 200 while the Hot Topic deluxe version debuted at 190 on the Billboard 200 in the same week.

Track listing

Personnel

Dance Gavin Dance

• Jonny Craig
  Jonny Craig
  Jonathan Monroe Craig is a Canadian-American singer. He is currently the lead vocalist for the band Dance Gavin Dance, and former vocalist of the bands Emarosa and Ghost Runner on Third. He has an eponymous solo project, with which he has released one studio album and a live album to date...
  
   – clean vocals
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• Jonathan Mess – unclean vocals
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• Will Swan – guitar
  Guitar
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  s, Rapping
  Rapping
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• Eric Lodge – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Matt Mingus – drums
  Drum kit
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Production

• Kris Crummett
  Kris Crummett
  Kris Crummett is a Portland, OR based record producer who is largely associated with the label Rise Records. He is the owner and operator of Interlace Audio studio....
  
   – production
  Sound recording and reproduction
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  , engineering
  Audio engineering
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  , mixing
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  , mastering
  Audio mastering
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• Mattias Adolfsson – album artwork
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• Kyle Hubbard – trumpet
  Trumpet
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   on track 5
• Brian Obedowski – mixing assistant
• Phill Mamula – layout

Charts

Chart (2011)	Peak position
US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	82
US Independent Albums Independent Albums The Billboard Independent Albums is a chart of the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays in the United States, compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is used to list artists who are not signed to major labels...	13
US Hard Rock Albums	4

External links

• Downtown Battle Mountain II Artwork – AbsolutePunk.net
• Dance Gavin Dance Myspace