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A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (CD)

By: Dashboard Confessional (Artist)
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DISC 1 for A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (CD) Album By Dashboard Confessional (Artist...
1   Hands Down
2   Rapid Hope Loos
3   As Lovers Go
4   Carry This Picture
5   Bend And Not Break
6   Ghost Of A Good Thing
7   Am I Missing
8   Morning Calls
9   Carve Your Heart Out
10   So Beautiful
11   Hey Girl
12   If You Can't Leave It Be, Might As Well Make It Bleed
13   Several Ways To Die Trying
 
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Review

Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.105) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003"
Rolling Stone (8/21/03, p.72) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Easily the toughest, most assured music he's ever made....The songs are intimate, sincere, complex, not too slow, dipping deep into Seventies soft rock and Eighties hardcore punk with Carrabba's whisper-scream-whisper voice..."
Spin (9/03, pp.107-8) - "This is a glossy, fun album, the work of a fellow who's discovered that the limelight suits him just fine....Carrabba remains remarkably fluent in the language of teen heartbreak..." - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (8/15/03, p.77) - "...Expands the parameters of the band's earlier acoustic-based sound, with the addition of electric guitars and more complex drumming enhancing frontman Chris Carrabba's emo-lite songcraft..." - Rating: B+
Q (11/03, p.107) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...He's both the poster boy and Morrissey of emo, with a no-nonsense lyricism that parallels Springsteen for emotional candour..."

Title Note

Dashboard Confessional: Chris Carrabba (vocals, guitar); John Lefler (guitar, piano, organ, background vocals); Scott Schoenbeck (bass); Mike Marsh (drums, percussion, background vocals).

Oscar Wilde famously wrote a whole play about the importance of being earnest; but his was the world of satire, playful winks, and words and phrases that always meant at least two things. Chris Carrabba, the driving force behind Dashboard Confessional, presents earnestness as his calling card, uncut by even a trace of irony. When he coos to a newfound lover "this air is blessed, you share with me" on the second line of Dashboard Confessional's A MARK, A MISSION, A BRAND, A SCAR--the group's third full-length album--one can be assured he means those words with every fiber of his being.

There's a certain refreshment in openness as the adroit lyricist and airbrushed face of emo presents his heart-on-sleeve narratives of tortured nights staying up till dawn pondering love over alluringly elusive acoustic folk guitar landscapes. Carrabba wonders "is there anything worth living/waiting/dying for" on "Am I Missing?" and reveals "I can fail before I ever try" on "Bend And Not Break." The revelations go on and on with unrelenting passion and almost unsettling candor, illustrating with vigor the varied struggles of being a twentysomething in the early 21st century. Dashboard Confessional has proven before to be the king of earnestness in rock and A MARK... only furthers that legacy.

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