The Guardian Newspaper (UK) has a review of the CD. Not so good… They gave it a 2 out of 5.

Outselling their emo (as in “emotional hardcore”) peers to score a no 1 album in the US, Dashboard Confessional depend almost entirely for their appeal on vocalist Chris Carrabba’s boyish good looks, longing expressions and credibility-boosting punk rock tattoos. There are so many pictures of the frontman in Dusk and Summer’s packaging that the music seems to be playing catch-up.

However, the people who know how to market teen angst have fiendishly placed Carrabba’s Robert Smith wail right up in the mix, while polishing the band’s guitars to an identikit FM-radio sheen. It’s commercial gold dust but curiously unemotional. The band only vaguely remember the “hardcore” ingredients in emo on the slightly more edgy title track. Maybe everybody’s buying it for the pictures.

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