Dashboard Confessional have spoken to Billboard about their next album. Frontman Chris Carraba discussed the album, which features production by Adam Schlesinger of power-pop mavens Fountains Of Wayne:
It has a vibrance that is suited for summertime. Some producers do an amazing job of inventing new techniques. But Adam understands the palette of craftsmanship. It's a nice marriage of where I've come from and where I've gotten to.

[I wanted Adam because] 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.

Dashboard plans to hit the road in support of the album later this year, but Carrabba has at least one other project on his mind, about which he declined to reveal details.