Instead, you’re here because you have an expectation of Dashboard Confessional’s almost decade-long musical silence resulting in something of interest and excitement – and you won’t be disappointed.
Though Crooked Shadows swims across genres with ease, treading waters from emo to acoustic, folk to ‘80s-synth, Dashboard Confessional remain firmly on the bleeding heart spectrum of emo if tracks like ‘About Us’ and ‘Heartbeat Here’ are anything to go by. Singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba is like a fine wine, the flavours of his voice only growing richer with time, his full-bodied tone delivering hooks and emotive realness catchy enough to grasp the attention of not only their loyal fans, but an army of new listeners.
Dashboard Confessional have crafted a release that caters to the changes in their fans as well as themselves – reflective, emotive and beautiful; the stadium rock anthem feel of the album’s title track is the sensational bottom line to those feelings.
8/10
