DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL – All The Truth That I Can Tell

“I FEEL HEAVY,” Chris Carraba sings on “Burning Heart,” the first song on All the Truth That I Can Tell, the first new Dashboard Confessional album in four years. We’re right there with you, man. For most of the 21st century, Carraba, the artist concurrently known as Dashboard Confessional, pretty well embodied the idea of “emo.” Older punks might take issue with this, but for fans perhaps not even alive in ‘85, Dashboard’s deadly earnest version of that amorphous genre tag has meant everything from college-cafe acoustic tunes (emo as shout-along folk, per his 2000 debut, The Swiss Army Romance) to full-band outings (emo as shout-along indie rock, per 2003 breakout A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar — boy, does this guy know how to name a genre-catering record).   For his ninth album, Carraba goes back to his hard-strumming roots, making his most old-school Dashboard-y collection in years (it’s even produced by James Paul Weiser, who helmed the first two albums). It’s just Carra