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The Shade of Poison Trees
Rock · 2007 · 12 tracks

The Shade of Poison Trees

Dashboard Confessional

A swift, twelve-track return to acoustic roots. Stripped of arena-rock polish, these songs favor dry intimacy, fingerpicked precision, and a quiet, weathered maturity.

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It's like the first album but with ten years of better guitar playing and a lot more perspective.

A quiet, weathered resilience that finds beauty in the aftermath of emotional storms.

The Shade of Poison Trees · vs · Dashboard Confessional
Cabin In Woods+2.0σ

Cabin In Woods saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks
01
Where There’s Gold…
2:29
02
Thick as Thieves
2:19
03
Keep Watch for the Mines
2:45
04
These Bones
2:59
05
Fever Dreams
2:30
06
The Shade of Poison Trees
2:58
07
The Rush
3:51
08
Little Bombs
2:32
09
I Light My Own Fires Now
2:54
10
Matters of Blood and Connection
2:23
11
Clean Breaks
2:58
12
The Widows Peak
2:58
Moments Worth Waiting For
The delicate, rapid-fire fingerpicking on 'Where There’s Gold…' that sets a frantic but fragile pace.
The way the backing vocals on 'The Rush' swell into a warm, choral embrace during the chorus.
The final, hopeful resolution of 'The Widows Peak' where the acoustic strumming feels like a steady heartbeat.
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