Matt The Producer VS Dashboard Confessional

June 27th, 2006

Yes I bought the new Dashboard Album, you wanna fight about it?

Actually, its worse. I downloaded the leaked version because I couldn’t wait until the actual release date. And come on, what else can you listen to after you drank 18 Red Bull and unmentionables at the bar and you can’t sleep and it’s five in the morning and you just feel like being a bit emotional like sitting on your roof smoking a cigarette and looking back at your life, “Maaahhnn, Iffe had A good lifff. Man” head nod head nod “Yeeeaa, I lofff ma friends.”

So, yes I listen to Dashboard Confessional, and Yes maybe I have skipped home down wet sidewalks after a date, singing,

“Hands down this is best date I can ever remember, always remember the sound of your stereo, dim of the soft light, the scent of your hair that you twirl in your fingers and time on the clock!” (All while swinging around a lamp post)

And yes, maybe I do like kissing guys but…wait scratch that last one. But don’t pretend you weren’t at least a bit Emo-curious about Chris Carrabba’s latest opius.

Anyway, I’ve been listening to the “Dusk and Summer” for a week or so, and I hate to say it but it’s not very good. If he released this album I’d hate to hear the one he threw out. The only plus is there’s a track featuring the guy from the Counting Crows. Daniel Langlois did such a great job at producing it, you can actually hear Adam Duritz’s Suede tassels swinging back and forth in the background.

The one thing that’s strange about it though, is Chris has been singing about hearts for so long I think he’s started to actually study the biological organ, in a lot of the new songs he drops some pretty mad medical science. Here’s an excerpt:

It hurts so bad

Please transplant this heart

But make sure you make a three inch incision

In my left aorta, or I’ll need a vascular stent

To regulate this melancholic blood pressuuuuuuure!

Seriously, it’s kind of weird but I guess when you sing about one thing for thirty five years you start to struggle to find other words to use. Honestly I really gave this CD a chance, and there are a few promising tracks, but truthfully there really is something to be said about people that change their sound every album, or in this case, ever in their life, honestly - how many songs can you possibly write about your first kiss?

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5 Responses to “Matt The Producer VS Dashboard Confessional”

  1. i’m a tad bit upset that the new cd isn’t as good as all the media hype has lead me to believe. DC is a rad band, and its disappointing to know that they’re latest attempt is lacking innovation, although I am impressed with the step by step instructions to perform a cardiovascular operation. Chris must have taken a biology class at the local community college between albums.

    None the less, I will buy the album and who knows, by the end of it I might just be able to perform open heart surgury and add an MD to my signature.

    By sourgirl on June 27, 2006 at 4:16 pm |
  2. i’m going to see them tomorrow in montreal with city and colour, and i’m more than excited. there hasn’t been one dashboard song i haven’t liked so far, and i’ve heard a few tracks from the new cd, and i wasn’t dissapointed. hopefully when i buy the whole cd, i won’t be wasting my money.

    By combatxbaby on June 28, 2006 at 12:31 pm |
  3. I also bought the new dashboard album. After reading this article, I went back and re-read all the lyrics. I can’t find that quote anywhere. Seriously, aortas, and stents? Where did you get that quote from?

    By spammilicious on June 29, 2006 at 3:21 pm |
  4. im going to the molson show with city and colour tomorrow! can’t say that i compleatly love the new stuff though.

    xokate

    By kate_28 on June 30, 2006 at 3:01 am |
  5. I have to agree. The new Dashboard is a tad bit… lacking. In the originality department. And there’s a song about the war… cliche?

    On another note, is anyone as excited as I am to see Say Anything along Dashboard? Now there’s a band that needs more (some) rotation on Much.

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