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July 8, 2002

Dashboard Confessional's King of Pain

Chris Carrabba turns heartbreak into a sing-along

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The Shade of Poison Trees

On last year's "Dusk and Summer," Chris Carrabba's band churned out vast anthems buffed to perfection. The record was pretty, but its sales figures weren't, so Carrabba's back to the stripped-down sound that first made him a star. It's a worthwhile exercise, and The Shade of Poison Trees easily...

2007 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Dusk And Summer

2006

A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar

2003

Summers Kiss [EP]

2002

Mtv Unplugged V2.0

2001

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Dashboard Confessional is a band, but it's easy to use the name to cover the cult of personality of just one man: singer/songwriter Chris Carrabba. Taking cues from the more confessional and personal vein of '90s indie punk, known somewhat derisively as "emo," Carrabba turned the idea into a one-man cottage industry of sad-boy folk-punk numbers. His debut, The Swiss Army Romance, is an intimate,...

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