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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.
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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.
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This is by-the-numbers arena rock, played with muscular competence by a relatively young band showing off its chops by executing successful formulas.
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At best Leave This Town inches beyond its predecessor, deeply tunneled into the hard-rock mainstream but a touch more confident and eclectic.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 71
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Mixed: 6 out of 71
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Negative: 37 out of 71
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Mar 23, 2017
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May 22, 2014
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MissT.Aug 1, 2009