Summers Kiss [EP] [Digipak] by Dashboard Confessional (CD, Apr-2005,new sealed..

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Album Features
UPC: 790168463624
Artist: Dashboard Confessional
Format: CD
Release Year: 2005
Record Label: Eulogy
Genre: Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Living in Your Letters
2. The Sharp Hint of New Tears
3. Turpentine Chaser
4. Ender Will Save Us All

Details
Playing Time: 17 min.
Producer: Jeremy DuBois
Distributor: Lumberjack-Mordam Music G
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes
Dashboard Confessional includes: Chris Carrabba.Dashboard Confessional: Chris Carrabba, Mike Stroud (guitars); Dan Bonebrake (bass guitar); Mike Marsh.Personnel: Chris Carrabba (vocals, guitar); Mike Stroud (guitar); Mike Marsh (drums, percussion, background vocals).Recording information: The Dungeon Studios, Miami, FL.Arranger: Chris Carrabba.The companion piece to the winter 2001 EP So Impossible, the breezy Summer Kisses EP finds Dashboard Confessional -- under, as always, the direction of heartbreaker Christopher Ender Carrabba -- turning in a sun-kissed, acoustic-based collection of four songs, most about love (at least to a certain extent). Songs about devotion, actually, pledging his love in a variety of ways, as he earnestly sings his melodies over eagerly strummed guitars and big drums. Carrabba doesn't alter his vocal approach much -- exhortations are the modus operandi here, not crooning -- and his wordy lyrics perhaps don't lend themselves easily to hooks (and it's hard not to wish that they did), but there's enough variation in sonic texture from track to track to give it the impression of tunefulness, if not the reality. And let it not be said that he's lacking in humor -- the last song is "Ender Will Save Us All," after all. So, while Summer Kisses doesn't provide a breakthrough, it is a progression, not just in its instrumentation and humor, but in how it suggests that Carrabba's songwriting is beginning to gel, and they're able to keep the emo but make it light. And, ultimately, that's a nice indicator for the next full-length. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine