Some girls love the sensitive singer-songwriters. Others prefer the bigger-than-life arena-rock gods. Now there's one man they can all swoon and fight over: Chris Carrabba.

With his fourth studio album Dusk and Summer, the artist known as Dashboard Confessional puts down his acoustic guitar and takes his act from the TRL studio to the stadium stage.

Perhaps influenced by an opening stint for U2 last year -- and a trip to a Jamaican studio with superstar producer Daniel Lanois -- Carrabba has made his biggest-sounding and most unabashedly commercial disc to date.

Fashioned from a seemingly bottomless well of gently crunchy riffs, chiming arpeggios, dreamy midtempo beats and nakedly yearning vocals, anthemic cuts like Don't Wait, The Secret's in the Telling, Reason to Believe and So Long, So Long are guaranteed to get seas of cellphone-waving teens swaying in unison. And, of course, singing along with every word of his hokey lyrics, which still sound like Hallmark Cards for horny, heartbroken MySpacers.

"Tonight may be the last chance we'll be given ... I won't sleep if you won't sleep tonight," he sings in one of many tunes that work the whole end-of-summer-as-loss-of-youth metaphor -- while slyly turning those lofty carpe diem sentiments into pickup lines, you'll note. Not that Carrabba's going to be needing any of those for the foreseeable future.

Catch the newly minted arena-rocker Tuesday night at the Convention Centre in Winnipeg with Say Anything, City and Colour and Ben Lee.

Oh, and don't forget your ID, girls.

Track Listing:

1. Don't Wait
2. Reason to Believe
3. Secret's in the Telling
4. Stolen
5. Rooftops and Invitations
6. So Long, So Long
7. Currents
8. Slow Decay
9. Dusk and Summer
10. Heaven Here