Dusk And Summer - Dashboard Confessional
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  • Summary: Chris Carrabba & co.'s long-delayed fourth album was produced chiefly by Don Gilmore, after sessions with Daniel Lanois were largely scrapped. Counting Crows' Adam Duritz guests.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 18
  2. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. The album is gentler and falls much closer to the feeling of The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most.
  2. Although long-term Dashboard fans will miss the more fragile moments, the new, big, epic sound is one that suits Carrabba.
  3. The overall lack of any real risk results in standard guitar anthem boilerplate.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 30
  2. Negative: 5 out of 30
  1. ameliar
    10
    this cd is amazing! when you first listen to it, it is apperant that it is not the traditional dashboard sound. the more i listened to it the more i loved it and now it has become my fave dashboard album. chris voice really shines and u can feel his emotions through his gripping and heart felt lyrics. dusk and summer is a step away from dashboards previous work but hey thats what makes me love it, dashboard gets better with time. this album wont dissapoint you, trust me. some of the tracks that stand out are "dusk and summer" "slow decay" and "heaven here" Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. AnthonyV
    5
    Call the waambulance. Emo Boi #1 is back with another collection of Music To Cut To. For those of you out there complaining about the guitars and the heavier arrangements: that's the best part of this album. The song structure and arrangement on this album is fantastic. And it all goes to hell when Mr. Carabba starts whining, yelping, and crying over it all like a 14-year-old who lost his dog. Yeah, if Chris wasn't so over-emotive on this record, it would be a normal pop record. Well, that says something for normal pop. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Or cry that it's broken to begin with. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. WillW
    3
    this doesnt even sound like dashboard. with the exception of "dont wait" "the secret's in the telling" "so long, so long" "dusk and summer" and heaven here" the album doesnt even sound like dashboard. and even these songs are a stretch. and i am a huge dashboard fan. i think they've gone away from who they are on this cd and it was not a good risk. by far worst cd yet! Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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