User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The American Idol contestant returns with his band's follow-up to its Grammy-nominated self-titled debut.
- Record Label: RCA
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
- More Details and Credits »
Top Track
No Surprise | |
---|---|
And I hope... And I hope... I've practiced this for hours, gone 'round and 'round And now I think that I've got it all down And as I say it louder I... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
Powered by
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 4 out of 10
-
Mixed: 5 out of 10
-
Negative: 1 out of 10
-
Daughtry and his band return with similar aggression on their sophomore album, Leave This Town. Daughtry's ferocious growl is still the centerpiece of the new songs, but the band has also taken a few creative risks.
-
The blueprint of follow-up Leave This Town--chugging riffs, angsty-sensitive lyrics, here-come-the-soaring-double tracked-?choruses--may feel utterly familiar, but it's undoubtedly what the people (the people not being up for, one guesses, any major stylistic switcheroos) want.
-
At best Leave This Town inches beyond its predecessor, deeply tunneled into the hard-rock mainstream but a touch more confident and eclectic.
-
It takes gall to put a song called 'No Surprise' on your second disc, but gall is something Daughtry does not lack, and that's what made him one of the only bona fide rock stars to come out of American Idol.
-
If you called Leave This Town, his familiar-sounding sophomore effort, workmanlike, he’d probably see it as a compliment. Too bad this is disappointingly generic hard rock with virtually the same formula that made his debut such a success.
-
It's a collection packed with groaning clichés and calculated banality, and while that's not so different from plenty of music in any era, Leave This Town is so formulaic, it could have come from a laboratory at DuPont, where they make plastic.
-
Chris Daughtry has a real band that plays really serious songs, which are, almost without exception, really, really bad.
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 11 out of 19
-
Mixed: 4 out of 19
-
Negative: 4 out of 19
-
DevinDJul 21, 2009
-
-
SwertM.Jul 16, 2009
-
-
KimCJul 28, 2009
-
-
May 22, 2014
-
-
ShafaetaJul 27, 2009
-
-
BobJul 22, 2009
-
-
ChrisH.Jul 16, 2009Or maybe, critics have just heard better music and have a larger variety outside the top twenty on the radio.
-