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Alter the Ending
Rock · 2009 · 12 tracks · 42m

Alter the Ending

Dashboard Confessional

Polished, anthemic rock that trades raw teenage angst for adult reflection. A lush balance of acoustic intimacy and radio-ready production.

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It's the Dashboard you remember, but with the lights turned up and the production dialed to eleven.

A resilient and polished reflection on moving past disaster toward a hopeful horizon.

Alter the Ending · vs · Dashboard Confessional
Golden Hour+2.0σ

Golden Hour saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 42m
01
Get Me Right
3:15
02
Until Morning
3:44
03
Everybody Learns From Disaster
3:33
04
Belle of the Boulevard
4:02
05
I Know About You
3:07
06
Alter the Ending
3:24
07
Blame It on the Changes
4:11
08
Even Now
2:43
09
The Motions
4:03
10
No News Is Bad News
3:55
11
Water and Bridges
3:37
12
Hell on the Throat
3:10
Moments Worth Waiting For
The soaring, radio-ready chorus of Belle of the Boulevard that feels designed for a stadium singalong.
The way the title track builds from a delicate acoustic strum into a full-band emotional crescendo.
The intimate, stripped-back vulnerability of Hell on the Throat that recalls the project's early bedroom recordings.
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