It’s punchy, catchy, and anthemically-inclined due to shoutier vocals and a jovial chorus. ‘Southbound And Sinking’ is bound to me a huge live crowd favourite.
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The full band lowers the tempo but ups the levity for a fine song about insecurity and introspective reassessment of one’s place in their own life.
‘ The Better Of Me’ deploys drums for the first time across and album that uses them sparingly but effectively. It’s a real watermark from an engrossing an established lyricist.
The song really expresses the minutiae of time, place, and inner-monologue in harmonious equal measure. ‘ Here’s To Moving On’ is a remarkably uplifting song about positive self-acceptance and a ripping first single off the album. It’s dueling-acoustic minor key progressions under a tale of someone rediscovering their confidence is a total winner, and like so many other DBC tracks, drips with optimism under a seemingly melancholic exterior. ‘Everyone Else Is Noise’ is quintessential Dashboard. He credits the adulation it received with bolstering his spirits enough to confidently write the rest of the album. So amped by the song being written, Chris immediately took to the stage that night and played the song for his audience brand new and unrehearsed. The second half of this song was written in a creative fervor before a gig in Manchester, pre-Covid. It’s a wonderful opener that sets a fine precedent for the rest of the album. Opening track ‘ Burning Heart’ nails the brief it’s extremely verbose and sweeping lyrics about optimistically missing a lover land perfectly over and over again across the song’s cantering and lone acoustic strumming. After so much change in his life (one that nearly ended due to the aforementioned bike crash), this approach yielded affirming and cathartic results, as are apparent on an album that deftly treads between sadness, redemption, and a fairly large portion of low key hope throughout. He wrote for himself, and discovered deeper truths within his life and place in the world as a result. Having survived a very nasty motorbike accident in the summer of 2020, and leaving Dashboard on the shelf for a few years between albums, Chris recently expressed to WoS that ATTICTwas written in such a way that there was no point during conception when he thought about what people would think of the end product. With all that in mind, it’s no surprise that his band’s 8 th studio album is magnificent, and a testament to a truly singular songwriter who has honed his craft and remained relevant for over two decades in the industry. The man was a poster boy for a unprecedentedly open and honest form of engrossing and commonly acoustic rock, and took over the world with it (and his remarkably handsome face, let it be said). That genre, whether you think it’s a swear word or not, is Emo (FYI readers born this millennium emo is short for emotional rock, and the centerpiece of alternative culture throughout the early-to-mid 2000’s).ĭespite emo’s myriad of subsequent sub-genres, Carrabba’s DIY punk ethics with a little less anger and a lot more heart forged a new timbre of catchy tunes, heart-rendingly melancholic lyrics, and a lofty musical shift away from the more grunge-infused early pre-emo-definitions of 90’s emotional rock bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, et al. Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can TellĬhris Carrabba – Dashboard Confessional’s engine room and long serving front man/ creative nucleus – is a rare thing these days a true pioneer of a musical genre and subculture.
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