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?

Posted on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 at 2:37 pm by Matt U and is filed under Blog.