Dashboard Confessional

The group's fourth album is a sparkling collection of up-tempo punk tracks and intense acoustic songs. Chris Carrabba's vulnerable voice takes center stage, with his lyrics creating impassioned images of heartache and pain. If you're not familiar with Dashboard's epic pop, you will be soon.

>Some people call him a tattooed love boy, some call him the Wanksta of Love, but the rest
of us just call him Dashboard Confessional. He's Chris Carrabba, the punk singer-songwriter
with the acoustic guitar, the tormented soul, a haircut he borrowed from James Dean and a
voice that came from you and me. He's also one of the weirdest rock heroes of the past
few years, an ordinary emo geek who turned into a star by doing it all his way, r... More >

His band, plus maybe his numbers, hone the jagged edge off his desperation ("Hands Down," "Carry This Picture"). (Grade - *)