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More from MusicDashboard Confessional's upcoming album won't be out until fall, but frontman Chris Carrabba, pictured, believes "it has a vibrance that is suited for summertime."
Part of the reason? Sympathetic production by Adam Schlesinger of power-pop mavens Fountains of Wayne.
"Some producers do an amazing job of inventing new techniques, but Adam understands the palette of craftsmanship. He's really good," said Carrabba, who's particularly enthused by tracks like "If This is Chemical" and "No News is Bad News."
"It's a nice marriage of where I've come from and where I've gotten to. For me, it's the track that ties all the ends together," he said of the latter.
Carrabba enlisted Schlesinger because the material, "to be frank, it's a bit poppy. But not in a pop' popular music way — in the grand tradition of a power-pop writing style, which Adam is spectacular at. This is as close as I get to it. I'm a bit of an angular writer and I felt myself being pulled in this new direction. He's a master of that end of the scope."
Carrabba said he wrote around 25 songs for the project, but instead of spending a lot of time arranging them, he e-mailed his Dashboard bandmates the demos so they could jointly discuss them.
"Months went by and we went on another tour," he recalled. "So by the time we finally played the songs, we had this immense fire. It was like being in a garage band. It helped (that) we were literally in a garage. Adam came in and the benefit of only having played the songs for three days was we were really pliable. We never lost the spark of the younger nature of the songs. They never had a chance to be overcooked. He understood that was important to us."
— Billboard
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