Acceptance Speech by Dance Gavin Dance

Acceptance Speech is the fifth studio album by American rock band Dance Gavin Dance, released on October 8, 2013, on Rise Records. The album serves as a follow-up to the band's fourth studio album, Downtown Battle Mountain II (2011), and is the band's first studio album to feature clean vocalist Tilian Pearson, bass guitarist Tim Feerick, and guitarist Josh Benton. It is the band's only studio album to feature Benton on rhythm guitar, who departed shortly after the album's release. The album was produced by Matt Malpass, which marks the band's first and only studio album to not be produced by Kris Crummett, who has produced all of the band's previous releases since Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean (2006). The album was announced on July 18, 2013. It was supported by the lead single, "The Robot with Human Hair, Pt. 4", released on July 19, 2013. The promotional single, the title-track "Acceptance Speech", was released on September 16. The second promotional single, "Jesus H. Macy", was released on September 30. The band released a music video for "Strawberry Swisher, Pt. 3" on October 31, which became the band's first music video since "Tree Village", from the album Happiness (2009). Another music video, for "Death of the Robot with Human Hair", premiered on March 7, 2014. The band released a b-side track, titled "Pussy Vultures", a song from the recording sessions for the album, on September 22, 2014. They toured on the Acceptance Speech Tour and the Rise Records Tour in 2014 to promote the album. On August 30, 2019, the band released an instrumental and a remastered version of the album, Acceptance Speech 2.0, to streaming and digital download platforms.