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Dusk and Summer
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Album: Dusk and Summer
Artist: Dashboard Confessional
Release Date: 6/27/2006
Genre: Rock/Pop
{^Dusk and Summer} -- a cohesive album divergent from the modern-{\rock} collection of songs on 2003's {^A Mark, a Brand, a Mission, a Scar} -- finds {$Dashboard Confessional}'s path to maturity leading them, weirdly enough, back to their roots. Whether or not this is a reaction to mainstream success, {$Dashboard} is still very much a full band, but the album is gentler and falls much closer to the feeling of {^The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most}. Not only does it include more tracks with simpler arrangements that occasionally now include piano and violin, the general sonic vibe resembles more of his earlier work, just more seasoned. Though the lead track and single, {&"Don't Wait,"} has one of the most grating choruses on the album -- and the song also owns a weird underlying air of {&"Kiss Me"} by {$Sixpence None the Richer} -- the remainder of the suitably titled {^Dusk and Summer} is very much full of satisfying heartfelt anthems that reflect its early evening beach artwork. {$Chris Carrabba}'s lyrical touchstone is again dominated by relationships, but that invigorating first date from 2003's {&"Hands Down"} must have really taken off, since broken-heart brooding only appears sparingly. The gentle {&"Stolen"} is a beautifully sincere song where the repeated "You have stolen my heart" is so tenderly spoken, it's like {$Carrabba} is taking care to not wake his sweetheart sleeping beside him. Leaving one's hometown is delicately reflected upon in the piano-tinged {&"So Long, So Long,"} where {$Counting Crows}' {$Adam Duritz} provides wonderful guest vocals, while the band proves it can rock out in tracks like {&"Reason to Believe"} and {&"Rooftops and Invitations."} And damn if {&"Slow Decay"} isn't the dirtiest, darkest song {$Dashboard Confessional} has written to date ({&"Heaven Here"} might have been a contender with its trashy percussion, but the song quickly goes soft and remains a muddled mess that never quite gets worked out). {$Dashboard Confessional} may have been embraced by the masses with the über-success of {^Spider-Man 2}'s {&"Vindicated,"} but {^Dusk and Summer} doesn't care about that. It's an album from a matured {$Carrabba} (now in his early thirties) directly to his grassroots fan base. He may have grown beyond six-strings and a wooden stool, but when the result is this good, who can really complain? ~ Corey Apar, All Music Guide

Track Name plays | downloads
Don't Wait 0 0    
Reason to Believe 0 0    
Secret's in the Telling 0 0    
Stolen 0 0    
Rooftops and Invitations 0 0    
So Long, So Long 0 0    
Currents 0 0    
Slow Decay 0 0    
Dusk and Summer 0 0    
Heaven Here 0 0    

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alternate releases

Dusk and Summer - BEST BUY EXCLUSIVE  |  2006
Dusk and Summer - CD/DVD - TARGET EXCLUSIVE  |  2006
Dusk & Summer - UNIVERSAL BONUS TRACK  |  2006
Dusk and Summer Plus - VAGRANT BONUS TRACK  |  2006
Dusk and Summer - VAGRANT BONUS TRACK  |  2006
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