Dashboard Confessional and BOYS LIKE GIRLS 'Watch The Fire'

09-21-2024

(BHM) Dashboard Confessional and BOYS LIKE GIRLS team up for the new single "Watch the Fire." Recorded in Nashville, the track is cinematic and sentimental in a way that perfectly blends the hallmark sound of each band. Weaving in orchestral elements throughout, it's a healing, cathartic tale of having to tear things down in order to restart.

Speaking to the natural draw he felt with Martin Johnson of BOYS LIKE GIRLS, Chris Carrabba shared, "Martin and I had bonded over some horrific accidents we'd had and about the recoveries that we had both worked our way through. One of the things you carry heavily when your body is laid up and your spirit is heavy is, inevitably, the past. One thing Martin and I share between us was a desire to put the past down for a while. Maybe for good. I hope so. I guess I do know one sure way of putting the past down, for a little while anyway: pick up a guitar. Reckoning with your past can be painful and ugly. It can also be rejuvenative and beautiful. I don't know whether you get to decide. I just know that it's worth it."

Reflecting on the lifelong influence of Dashboard Confessional, Johnson remembers, "The year is 2002. I'm a sophomore in high school destroying the family PC to illegally download the early Dashboard Confessional EPs off Limewire. I eventually coughed up enough cash to cop the MTV unplugged CD and DVD at Newbury Comics in Boston and spun it into submission. I heard something interesting on those recordings that I had no idea would alter the rest of my career as a songwriter and guitar player - a certain tuning where all the strings were played open and strummed top to bottom. I studied the way Chris played and the interesting voicings I had never heard before and applied them to my playing."