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"crooked shadows" is the seventh studio album recorded by American rock band Dashboard Confessional, released February 9th, 2018 through Fueled by Ramen Records.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 60, based on 4 reviews, indicating "Mixed or average reviews ".
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After a nine-year hiatus, Dashboard Confessional are back with their seventh studio album, Crooked Shadows. While sometimes resurrections such as this can have fans on the edge of their seat, anticipating either a successful comeback or a colossal fail, with the arrival of Crooked Shadows, they can breathe a sigh of relief.
Sure, this album lacks an anthemic crowd pleaser like their 2003 hit "Hands Down" and it doesn't really have a ballad that speaks to us quite like "Stolen" did in 2006, but Crooked Shadows offers a satisfying balance between pop, alt-rock and Dashboard's familiar approach to intimate storytelling.
Crooked Shadows starts strong with "We Fight," a song about sticking firm to what you believe in — a necessary message in today's political climate. This track, while clean and reflective of what rock is sounding like today, also offers an air of familiarity as vocalist Chris Carrabba reaches his typical place somewhere between singing and screaming. Midway through, however, the album looses its way. "Belong," and the album's title track sound over-produced and veer into bubblegum pop territory.
It was always going to be tough for Dashboard Confessional to repeat what they were, but while maybe Crooked Shadows doesn't hit the heights that A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar did in 2003, it's still a welcome return.
Reviewed by Beth Bowles for exclaim.ca.
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