Daughtry - Leave This Town
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Artist: DaughtryEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-07-14
Music Label: RCA
Product features:
- DAUGHTRY LEAVE THIS TOWN
- You Don't Belong
- No Surprise
- Every Time You Turn Around
- Life After You
- What I Meant To Say
- Open Up Your Eyes
- September
- Ghost Of Me
- Learn My Lesson
- Supernatural
- Tennessee Line
- Call Your Name
Music reviews of Leave This Town
Music Review: Sophomore release pales in the shadow of the first...
Rating: 2 Stars
It kinda hurts to give this 2 stars. Negative reviews aren't popular, but I often find the best insights amongst the reviews that are under 5 stars (ever notice the statistical skew in ratings?). Hope you find something of use here:
I'm a Chris Daughtry fan. I really dug his first album (4 stars). Powerful rock voice, & arguably the best rock vocal talent to come out of Idol, I really wanted to like this second album... and so I bought it without listening to the preview snippets. Don't make that mistake.
What follows isn't your usual review w/ song-by-song dialog... plenty of those on Amazon. I'll come at this from the angle of musicianship and studio recording/mixing/production.
The self titled first album went 4X Platinum versus "Leave This Town's" approx 1X Platinum. I can see a few reasons for the difference in sales.
It's not simply attributable to the now hackneyed "Sophomore Slump", nor is it because of any lack for talent in song writing, with co-writing credits to people like Richard Marx, Chad Kroeger, et al. (See wiki for other collaborators). And Chris managed to lure Vince Gill (a seriously talented guitar player, song writer, & vocalist) into singing with him on the silly sounding "Tennessee Line" tune (the "fiddle" at the end made me throw up in my mouth a little bit).
And the *relative* lack of snap with this second album isn't completely at the hands of Producer Howard Benson, who produced both albums (I'm never *quite* sure how much to attribute the final product to the producer or to the recording engineers and mixing engineers).
I point at both the second album's band members and at the studio engineering and/or mixing as the points of relative difference... along with an intangible I can't quite put my finger on, other than to say something just didn't *grab* with the second album's blend of songs.
1) Chris proudly proclaimed that he was happy to now have a "real band" for this second album. He should have found a way to keep the studio guys from the first album. On the first album, Phil X (Canadian Phil Xenidis) did a phenomenal job playing a variety of rock rhythm guitar styles, nice layering, all very clearly recorded, and all showing a seasoned hand at both getting a variety of great studio guitar sounds. And Xenidis' sensibility in steadily building the guitar lines from front to back of the songs really made the songs interesting on repeated listening... professional, astute, and talented rock guitar. The guitar players who are now a part of Daughtry's "real band" sound positively ham-fisted by comparison, with both mediocre guitar/amp sounds and playing. Xenidis' work schools these guys. Guitar playing is lost on some people, but absolutely glaring to me. Phil X, bass player Chris Chaney (ex Jane's Addiction and Panic Channel), and drummer Josh Freese put down a great sound on the first album. Slashes' guitar solo on "What I Want" was classic Slash wah-wah noodling, a bit "phoned-in", but still interesting. I found the second album to be very uninvolving from a musical standpoint, and you might too if you happen to have any predilections towards musicianship. If not, you might be happy with #2. (pun intended)
2) Studio engineering on the first album, admittedly a very forward and compressed sounding studio production (the norm these days), at least differentiated all the musicians parts clearly, and importantly, Daughtry's awesome voice had a full, warm expanse that showcased his range. The second album has Chris' vocals sounding thin on the low end, and sounding a bit strident in his upper registers. Not sure what went wrong, but the first album sounds so much more balanced, while the second album has an unforgiveably trebly balance, like he was singing into a cheap microphone. A shame, as it shouldn't be hard to get this right with today's studio technology. Did I mention that Phil Xenidis' guitar playing and amp sounds kicked @_$_$ on the first album? Uh, yeah... I repeat myself. Kerrang.
I listened to the first album repeatedly... and I still listen to it about once a month. I tried hard, but couldn't muster interest in the second album after two weeks of "giving it time". I held off writing this review for months, hoping the second album would grow on me, but I threw my first impressions at the wall, and they stuck.
Sorry, Chris and Howard. Better hire some studio talent for round 3, lest a great rock vocal fledgling melt the wax in his wings and crash on the tarmac.
Description of Leave This Town
Daughtry achieved global success with its self-titled debut, the biggest selling artist release of the past two years. The band's Grammy-nominated, quadruple-platinum debut garnered multiple American Music Awards, World Music Awards, and Billboard Music Awards. Daughtry spent most of the last two years on the road, performing to sold-out arenas, but is now back with the follow-up to the its massive debut. Leave This Town will be available on July 14, 2009, and was produced by Howard Benson.Christian & Gospel CDs
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