To commemorate their tour together, Dashboard Confessional and The All-American Rejects have covered each other. Dashboard Confessional have chosen to cover “Move Along”, while The All-American Rejects chose to take on “Hands Down”; listen below. Dashboard main man Christ Carrabba comments:
“When covering a song, we try to adhere as closely as we can to the most recognizable earmarks. Most importantly the melody. The fun comes in the choices the band can make around those earmarks. We had a blast making ‘Move Along’ ours. The song has so much color and power it was easy to feel inspired by it.”
Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter adds:
“‘Hands Down’ is an open-hearted story of young love. In the original recording, the vocal performance is something that carries you through that tale of pure discovery. Vocally, my immediate intention was to play the opposite. For the musical canvas, we wanted to take all the candy away from this song and feed it nothing but opiates, leaving you feeling as if the instrumentation itself was the nerves the lyrics were expressing.”
[via Consequence Of Sound]