When he was recording his debut album in 2006,
Chris Daughtry didn't have the time to assemble the real rock band he clearly wanted, so it appeared under the band name
DAUGHTRY without featuring any of the musicians who later became part of the group. That's not the case with
Leave This Town: all five members appear on the album cover, serving as visual evidence that
DAUGHTRY is a band, not a person. Such reminders may be necessary because
Leave This Town doesn't differ much in feel or form from
DAUGHTRY.
Daughtry and his band have no desire to make anything other than good, basic, black-and-white modern rock and they do so efficiently on
Leave This Town, a sophomore album that's every bit as satisfying as the first. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine