Dashboard Confessional Confirm Work On First New Album In Six Years

Recently revived third-wave emo veterans Dashboard Confessional are eyeing off a follow-up to 2009 LP After The Ending, with frontman Chris Carrabba confirming to EW in a recent interview that the band will return to the studio together at least once more.

"It really feels like we're eager to write, which means there's probably a new record coming out," the singer-songwriter told EW.

"Who am I kidding? There's a new record coming."

"I need it like I need chocolate and beer," he continued. "Like I need love and a skateboard and… I just need it."

The impetus for creating a new work seems to have at least partially come from the band's recent return to active touring duty — they're currently co-headling a US summer run with Third Eye Blind — with Carrabba commenting that, now that Dashboard have reawakened the live-performance beast, "the next stop" will be more music.

The timing of a new record would be serendipitous, with this year marking the 15th anniversary of Dashboard Confessional's studio debut, The Swiss Army Romance, from way back when the band was still a "man'n'guitar" solo project for Carrabba post-Further Seems Forever — though that album did get a second run at life in 2010 with a commemorative edition released in honour of a decade of life. 

There's no sense in starting to hold your breath for the new album, though, as Carrabba tells EW that the album could take anywhere from "as short as 10 days, or as long as three months, or as long as two years" — so you'll have to make do with those Swiss Army Romance reissues (and 2001's The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most, if you're feeling fancy) for now. That, or kill the time reliving Carrabba's stint as a playable punchline in period-relevant online platformer Emo Game