Crooked Shadows by Dashboard Confessional

Crooked Shadows, Dashboard Confessional's seventh album, came out on February 9, 2018 through Fueled by Ramen and Dine Alone, ending a nine-year wait that stretched back to Alter the Ending in 2009. Chris Carrabba, who has led the Boca Raton band since it began as his solo side project, came back with John Lefler on guitar and piano and Scott Schoenbeck on bass, and with songs that swap some of the old diary-page hush for bigger, sturdier choruses.

"We Fight" led the way, premiering on Beats 1 in November 2017, then getting a video from director David Mack and an airing on Conan in January. "Belong" and "Heart Beat Here" followed it out the door. The album opened at number 53 on the Billboard 200 and at four on both the Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts, and the band toured it across the US with Beach Slang, then alongside All Time Low that August.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.