Dashboard Confessional - Crooked Shadows (February 9, 2018) Album • Page 14

I dug the title track.

 

It wasn't unpleasant but it didn't really stick for me

 

Looking through comments on DC on social media posts and noticing a lot a positive feedback about the album. That’s pretty good to see considering the mixed reactions in this thread.

Dare I look on reddit? That place frightens me.

 

Wow, according to last.fm I played "About Us" 20 times today haha.

 

it's his best vocal album too!! i feel like i keep saying this but i think i never noticed how good he sounds on it.

What they can never take awaaaaaaAAAAAaaaaaaaay

 

Oh yeah, he does some insane stuff on that record, vocally. The title track is pretty jaw-dropping.

 

The bridge in Be Alright makes up for the lackluster chorus. Song is growing on me.

 

I was bummed out on the ATE acoustic record at first. I was certain he just did an acoustic pass and threw the regular vocals on it. Being this far removed, I put it on today without listening to the regular version and it was great. Not his best but great. Also listened to Crooked Shadows this morning for a second time. At least it’s brief so the good moments don’t get drowned out as badly.

 

After multiple listens to this I feel like the best track was used as the lead single - which to me is unfortunate. I get the label pushing that song though. It got me hyped and I feel it got everyone else on board. I'm interested to see where he'll go from here. If most of these songs were on a bsides collection I'd totally understand them. I wonder what the album he lost sounded like.

 

So Cold is a great song.definitely would have benefitted from a better producer.

 

i'm surprised you all aren't in here shredding this horrible review. regardless of album quality this writing is pretty bad, i don't know why this review even happened. more just funny than anything that they decided to even do this

Dashboard Confessional: Crooked Shadows Album Review | Pitchfork

 

Score’s too high.

 

Saw this posted on Twitter earlier. I can’t disagree with a lot of the criticisms, but the writing is pretty awful. Not sure how this got published.

 

yeah going in not as a fan of the band that didn’t listen to the album, i still think it’s atrociously written

 

This is an... Interesting album.

 

Actually, I like it as a pop album but not as much as a DBC album

 

Yeah. That’s kinda how I feel about it. It’s not the worst thing in the world. Just not the DC I love or was expecting after 9 years.

 

I just purchased the Twin Forks LP on vinyl. Extremely underrated, imo.

 

Ohhh my feelings are so mixed about this album. I saw Dashboard in around October last year - he played 'we fight' and 'heart beats here' during the set.. both sounded great live and are probably my favourite two songs from the album. I don't mind 'about us' and 'crooked shadows'... and everyone seems to like the last song but I haven't gotten to the end of the album much.

I think the hard thing for me is that Dashboard will always remind me of high school, and falling in love for the first time and all those feelings that I felt when I listened to 'the places you have come to fear the most' and 'hands down'. Releasing an album after 9 years was never going to meet my expectations but I'm glad for more Dashboard music.

Also, as others have mentioned, I would check out Twin Forks if you haven't. Cross my mind is one of my fav songs.

 

But it’s about the music.. not a band name so I never really understand comments like this

 

I had people over for an event last night and after the event it basically turned into an emo night and someone put on “belong”, and I was like “I hate this song” as I proceeded to know Every lyric.

 

After a dozen or so listens this weekend I'm starting to warm up to this a bit. My least favorite songs are About Us and Open My Eyes, but everything else is a pretty fun listen.

The new album also inspired me to go back through this discography. It's funny, when Dusk & Summer came out 12 years ago I immediately hated it. I think I was just so into the acoustic/clean sound of DC that I was shocked to hear distorted guitars. But now listening to it it's actually a great album. I love The Secrets in the Telling and Rooftops & Invitations.

 

S A M E

 

I wasn’t a huge Dashboard fan back in the day so when I started getting into them, I thought Dusk and Summer was fantastic....I also didn’t really know anything other than Hands Down before Vindicated and then Stolen came out, so when I did start listening to them, I didn’t have that acoustic frame of reference for them.

Once I dove in I realized I had heard some other Dashboard songs before and just didn’t realize it was them.

 

I think I’m really gonna like this album as I have more time with it. I’ve liked everything he’s done so far. Having Brian Fallon release on the same day isn’t fair.