Dashboard Confessional: They Have Stolen the Hearts of Millions

Dashboard Confessional is a Florida-based alternative rock band was the brainchild of then Further Seems Forever vocalist Chris Carrabba. It was intended to be a solo project, as it was evident to its stripped down LP 'The Swiss Army Romance.' The only sounds that you will hear from the songs on the album are Carrabba's singing and his acoustic guitar. The name of the band was said to be from a song entitled 'The Sharp Hint of New Tears,' which is on their first full length album. Following his first solo project, Carrabba joined his band mates in Further Seems Forever to record their first album. After the album came to fruition, he decided to quit the band to focus on his second Dashboard Confessional album. 'The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most' was his second LP, followed by an EP titled 'So Impossible.' All of those three albums were starting to gain some attention and many started listening to the songs and buying the records. ...