Dusk And Summer
- Dashboard Confessional
- Band Name: Dashboard Confessional
- Record Label: Vagrant
- Release Date: Jun 27, 2006
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The album is gentler and falls much closer to the feeling of The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most.
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80Represents a major upgrade in Dashboard's sound. [Jul 2006, p.83]
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Dusk And Summer is proof that Carrabba's ability to drop hugely emotive choruses into three-minute pop songs has become its own form of classic American songwriting. [Aug 2006, p.199]
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80Dusk and Summer’s over-the-topness is relentless – most any second-banana Blink 182-er would sell an expendable internal organ to use one of these songs as a set-closer.
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They've never sounded so unoriginal. Or, frankly, better.
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70It's at once a distillation of all that drew tweeners to Dashboard... and a messy, multidimensional celebration of romance and regret. [Jul 2006, p.99]
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Dusk and Summer can be as ponderous and precious as a Hallmark card, but it succeeds because Carrabba has found music as intense and bittersweet as his deep, deep feelings. [29 Jun 2006, p.68]
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70Slower paced and more atmospheric than any of its predecessors, "Dusk" is an ambitious showcase of maturity.
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60Although long-term Dashboard fans will miss the more fragile moments, the new, big, epic sound is one that suits Carrabba.
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The overall lack of any real risk results in standard guitar anthem boilerplate.
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Most of Dusk And Summer sounds factory-made and even kitschy.
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Truly this is music for life's uncomplicated moments. [15 Jul 2006, p.39]
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Only the title track bears any resemblance to what Dashboard once were.
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40Only the softer songs... display any of the heartbroken mystique that once made Carrabba compelling. [Sep 2006, p.79]
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40It's difficult to imagine Carraba's earnest tenor appealing to anyone over the age of 20. [Sep 2006, p.107]
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40The band only vaguely remember the "hardcore" ingredients in emo on the slightly more edgy title track. Maybe everybody's buying it for the pictures.
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40The songs are pretty much middle-of-the-road, generic radio alt-rock devoid of any real personality.
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40This Dashboard has rock hooks and not much real emotion. This Dashboard is devoid of the only thing that actually made the band good: sincere heartbreak.
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