23-11-2011, 11:00
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Creed, 3 Doors Down, that kinda stuff
got repetitive pretty quick for me
a few good songs
rock radio friendly
1.5
from the album - Crawling Back To You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2WJ3mhjgHA
released Nov 22nd, 2011
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Bio
Bo Bice proved that American Idol could have a rocker as a finalist, but Chris Daughtry proved that the show could
generate a successful rocker outside the context of the show. Of course, it helped that he was the polar opposite
of Bice, a shaggy retro-rocker soaked in the South. Bold and bald, Daughtry was the picture of a modern rocker,
living by the rulebook written by Live and Fuel. These were the qualities that helped make Chris Daughtry the most
successful new rock & roll singer of 2006, as well as one of the most successful Idol graduates in the show's
history.
Album Review
On the verge of succumbing completely to workingman's boredom on their 2009âs sophomore set Leave This Town,
DAUGHTRY snap back to life with 2011âs Break the Spell. Working once again with producer Howard Benson, a
collaborator since the early days when it wasnât clear whether Chris Daughtryâs charms would translate outside of
American Idol, DAUGHTRY add color back into their desaturated post-grunge, embracing their lineage as radio-ready
rockers. Often, Break the Spell harks back to the glory days of the late â80s, when rockers played golden gods all
for the sake of video cameras, secure in the knowledge that heavy rotation on MTV and AOR radio would shift
millions of CDs. So it is with Break the Spell: thereâs a candied confidence to DAUGHTRYâs swagger, theyâre
unconcerned with sobriety, theyâre happy to have their riffs over-muscled, happy to have every speckle of their
production sparkle. Itâs still loud music -- both by design and brickwalled mastering -- but Daughtry has softened
his defining trait as a rocker: heâs dampened his dourness, choosing to dabble in levity at least as far as surface
sonics are concerned. Itâs hard to imagine the Daughtry of 2006 acquiescing to the disco-rock on the syncopated
stomp âOutta My Headâ but here itâs part of a record colored by shellacked harmonies -- arriving via vocals and
six-strings -- ambient echoes, and acoustics, all working in service of melody, not brawn. Itâs as if DAUGHTRY
believe theyâve earned their rock & roll stripes so they no longer need to prove that theyâre for real -- they can
just ease into the role of sugary arena rockers that theyâve always been destined to be.
Track Listing
1. Renegade
2. Crawling Back to You
3. Outta My Head
4. Start of Something Good
5. Crazy
6. Break the Spell
7. We're Not Gonna Fall
8. Gone Too Soon
9. Losing My Mind
10. Rescue Me
11. Louder Than Ever
12. Spaceship
Creed, 3 Doors Down, that kinda stuff
got repetitive pretty quick for me
a few good songs
rock radio friendly
1.5
from the album - Crawling Back To You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2WJ3mhjgHA
released Nov 22nd, 2011
from all music
Bio
Bo Bice proved that American Idol could have a rocker as a finalist, but Chris Daughtry proved that the show could
generate a successful rocker outside the context of the show. Of course, it helped that he was the polar opposite
of Bice, a shaggy retro-rocker soaked in the South. Bold and bald, Daughtry was the picture of a modern rocker,
living by the rulebook written by Live and Fuel. These were the qualities that helped make Chris Daughtry the most
successful new rock & roll singer of 2006, as well as one of the most successful Idol graduates in the show's
history.
Album Review
On the verge of succumbing completely to workingman's boredom on their 2009âs sophomore set Leave This Town,
DAUGHTRY snap back to life with 2011âs Break the Spell. Working once again with producer Howard Benson, a
collaborator since the early days when it wasnât clear whether Chris Daughtryâs charms would translate outside of
American Idol, DAUGHTRY add color back into their desaturated post-grunge, embracing their lineage as radio-ready
rockers. Often, Break the Spell harks back to the glory days of the late â80s, when rockers played golden gods all
for the sake of video cameras, secure in the knowledge that heavy rotation on MTV and AOR radio would shift
millions of CDs. So it is with Break the Spell: thereâs a candied confidence to DAUGHTRYâs swagger, theyâre
unconcerned with sobriety, theyâre happy to have their riffs over-muscled, happy to have every speckle of their
production sparkle. Itâs still loud music -- both by design and brickwalled mastering -- but Daughtry has softened
his defining trait as a rocker: heâs dampened his dourness, choosing to dabble in levity at least as far as surface
sonics are concerned. Itâs hard to imagine the Daughtry of 2006 acquiescing to the disco-rock on the syncopated
stomp âOutta My Headâ but here itâs part of a record colored by shellacked harmonies -- arriving via vocals and
six-strings -- ambient echoes, and acoustics, all working in service of melody, not brawn. Itâs as if DAUGHTRY
believe theyâve earned their rock & roll stripes so they no longer need to prove that theyâre for real -- they can
just ease into the role of sugary arena rockers that theyâve always been destined to be.
Track Listing
1. Renegade
2. Crawling Back to You
3. Outta My Head
4. Start of Something Good
5. Crazy
6. Break the Spell
7. We're Not Gonna Fall
8. Gone Too Soon
9. Losing My Mind
10. Rescue Me
11. Louder Than Ever
12. Spaceship
