Dashboard Confessional Band • Page 34

i found one of the beaches doin pmore

 

the maine just posted a bunch. the final video of Hands Down is so fun.

 

Gorgeous song

 

Dusk and Summer is a whole grown ass 18 yr old now. Which feels odd.

 

That’s crazy. That album is probably my favorite too. It changes between that and Alter The Ending.

 

Get ready to feel older: it’s actually 19. I got that album for my brother on his 21st birthday, and he turns 40 next week.

 

Oh, I must have written the year down wrong. My back hurts.

 

Crooked Shadows has really grown on me over the years. We Fight is an all-timer.

 

1/3 great, 1/3 ok, 1/3 bad

 

Guess I'll share this in here too!

My Life In 35 Songs, Track 19: “Dusk and Summer” by Dashboard Confessional

 

I liked Crooked when it came out but his latest one immediately replaced it for me as the proper great DC comeback record.

 

A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar is 22 years old today.

 

The underrated gem of an album, The Shade of Poison Trees, turns 18 today.

 

Crazy when albums you consider “latter career” releases for a band are nearing their 20th anniversary.

 

I need to revisit that album. Despite my attempts, it never clicked when it initially came out. I was pretty bummed. It also does not feel like it was 18 years ago, lol.

 

Shade has never clicked with me either, aside from 3-4 songs. Just feels like it’s missing something.

 

His last one was for me what I’ve heard people describe Shade was for them. His return to his older sound and an underrated solid album.

 

The last one had a way more interesting point of view, IMO. Returning to a sound he perfected when he was angsty, young, and heartbroken, but doing it from the perspective of someone who is older, wiser, has a family now, etc.

 

Need Shade on vinyl, cassette, and mini disc

 

I remember being shocked when Shade was announced because it was just a little over a year after Dusk and Summer. Didn’t Chris make some deal with the label? He would give them a rockin’ full band album if he was allowed to do a more stripped down release for the next record. I thought I read that in an interview somewhere.

 

Also curious what DC fans think of Crooked Shadows.

To me, it was huge that Chris was coming back. I saw him play We Fight and Heart Beats Here before the album was released at a big iHeartRadio concert with Beck and Mumford and Sons and the National. I pre-ordered the signed vinyl from a Canadian label that was like 300 copies only.

Then the album came out and it was kind of a hodge podge pop-production-sounding quasi-EP, quasi-full length. And I heard ZERO feedback on the album, just a few profiles of him and his comeback and accident recovery, etc. And that limited-to-300 copies signed album didn’t sell out for a while after the album was out.

I still don’t really hear much about it. Was there ever an explanation or context like “these were a few songs I had in the can that didn’t fit on a regular DC album”? Or post-mortem on how it was received by fans?

Is it just an album that had a semi-significant circumstance (his return after the accident) but was ultimately below par/unremarkable? I feel like his last one also didn’t get much feedback that I was aware of. I feel like everything I was seeing about Chris online was more focused on his tour and playing the old stuff etc.

 

The motorcycle accident? That was during Covid wasn’t it? Or was there an earlier accident I’m forgetting about?

 

You’re right. Wow. I scrambled the order of that. So I guess Crooked Shadows was the comeback album (and I think he said he already had another album in the can or almost done at that time). So, did that 2nd album get derailed by the accident or was he just chilling for 2-3 years after Crooked Shadows and the accident wasn’t what caused the longer break?