The A.V. Club has a review up and gives the cd a C+.

A lot of Dashboard Confessional’s fans discovered Chris Carrabba’s songs during the time when radio was dominated by grinding nü-metal, boy-bands, and gangsta rap; by contrast, Carrabba’s acoustic angst-ballads sounded honest and direct, especially to a generation apparently unaware that heartbroken guys with guitars are as common as coffee shops. Now, three years after trying out a bigger rock sound on A Mark. A Mission. A Brand. A Scar.—and two years after landing the diamond-hard smash hit “Vindicated” on the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack—Dashboard Confessional is trying to hold onto the young-adult audience as it migrates into graduate school or the job market. The result is Dusk And Summer, an album of dryly mature love songs with an arena-ready sheen that contains echoes of Coldplay and, oddly enough, Journey.

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