- Record Label: Fueled by Ramen Records
- Release Date: Feb 9, 2018
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Feb 26, 2018This is Dashboard Confessional in 2018: still as charming, still as cathartic and ultimately every bit the record you want it to be.
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Feb 9, 2018All in all, Crooked Shadows is where new and old Dashboard meet amicably. It is the most revitalising DC album to date.
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Feb 15, 2018Perhaps Carrabba still writes lyrics in broad terms, but this willingness to sculpt his sounds on the softer side indicates that he's discovered a way to sustain this allegedly adolescent music well into his adulthood.
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Feb 9, 2018It was always going to be tough for Dashboard Confessional to repeat what they were, but while maybe Crooked Shadows doesn't hit the heights that A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar did in 2003, it's still a welcome return.
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Feb 9, 2018This album is Carrabba's rather reasonable pop petition to be dealt back into a game he started.
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Feb 14, 2018Crooked Shadows, their first album in nine years, folds the polished dynamics of contemporary pop into a hesitant, uneven collection of heartsongs that nonetheless ache and soar like vintage Dashboard.
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Feb 9, 2018Of all his very short albums, this is his shortest, and where he once packed his songs with knotty chord changes and shout-along confessions, here he tends toward conventional structures and lowest-common-denominator couplets.
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Feb 12, 2018With Crooked Shadows, Carrabba aims to bring together his competing production impulses. Unfortunately, the results are all over the place.
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Kerrang!Feb 16, 2018A largely drab album. [10 Feb 2018, p.51]