Dashboard Confessional - Alter The Ending reviews
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| Rollingstone |
 Over the past decade, Chris Carrabba has turned his penchant for angsty soul-baring into a career, a quasi-religious practice and a genre. The emo godfather's sixth album proves he's also gotten better in that span. Ending is a return to full-bore rock after the mellow Shade of Poison Trees (2007), and songs like the raucous "New Morning" ooze craft. The surprise is the mood of uplift, songs that see good fortune looming. A hopeful emo album — alter the ending, indeed....full text |
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| Spin |
All Chris Carrabba’s albums as heartthrob-in-chief of Dashboard Confessional have been about tension, primarily romantic: He can't help comparing his current love to the idealized version in his pretty little head. But an aesthetic battle also rages within Carrabba, one pitting Dashboard's solo-acoustic roots against the frontman's desire to move arenas with the intensity of his emotion. After making a pair of big-budget rock records with A-list producers Gil Norton and Daniel Lanois, Carrabba stripped down for 2007's The Shade of Poison Trees, which successfully convinced early-decade Dashboard fans that he hadn't left the campfire forever.
On the band's latest album, Carrabba plays it both ways. Produced by power-pop whiz Butch Walker and Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger, Alter the Ending contains no shortage of high-gloss thrills: In "Blame It on the Changes," tolling church bells underscore the regretful lyric, while the jangly "I Know About You" might be the best song the Gin Blossoms never recorded; later, "The Motions" opens with a synth trill straight out of "Stacy's Mom."...full text |
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| Allmusic |
| Other bands have rounded out their lineup from time to time, but Dashboard Confessional has always been the brainchild of Chris Carrabba, the most sensitive raven-haired rocker this side of Morrissey. Like Morrissey, Carrabba has built a career upon heartbreak; unlike Morrissey, he's never had a band as a strong as the Smiths to give his songs the right amount of lush, electric kick. As a result, Dashboard Confessional's best moments usually occur whenever Carrabba consolidates his strengths and functions as solo musician, from the more intimate moments of his MTV Unplugged performance to acoustic-based albums like The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most and The Shade of Poison Trees. 2009's Alter the Ending finds him reprising his role as frontman, though, yielding a track list that includes some fine songs but couches them in uninspired arrangements. It's testament to Carrabba's songwriting that these tunes fare far better on the bonus disc (available as part of the album's deluxe package), where they're played on acoustic instruments. Add a three-piece band to the mix, however, and you're left with hooks that suddenly feel clichéd, lyrics that try too hard to evoke a sense of teenaged abandon ("We lit the van with dreams after the sun burned into cinders"), and electric guitars that lack the trebly energy of their acoustic counterparts. Returning fans may take comfort in these cathartic anthems, but those who were won over by Poison Trees -- a return-to-form effort that combined melody with more nuanced arrangements -- will prefer the deluxe edition's acoustic disc....full text |
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