Daughtry fans might want to avoid the reviews of the band’s new album.
Let’s just say critics aren’t enamored with “Baptized,” the fourth album from Chris and his bandmates.
Of course, fans and the buyers of music have the final say.
And Daughtry has established a pretty good track record when it comes to selling albums.
As of this morning, “Baptized” was sitting at number five on iTunes, behind albums by Eminem, Five Finger Death Punch, One Direction and the Hunger Games soundtrack.
And, on Tuesday, the lead single from the album — “Waiting for a Superman” — was the only non-Voice song among the top five singles on the iTunes rock chart.
As for those reviews … here’s a sampling, with links to the full stories.
Rolling Stone: Gives Chris and the guys 2.5 stars out of 5, saying “seven years after he placed on American Idol, Chris Daughtry and his band are opening up their would-be grunge to more nuance.”
New York Times: No rating, but says: “When they write the obituary for hard rock — O.K., the next obituary for hard rock — certainly it will reference ‘Baptized,’ the album on which Daughtry went soft.”
Slant: Gives Chris and the guys 1 star out of 5, saying Daughtry’s “new album, ‘Baptized,’ might as well be subtitled A Dozen Even More Listless Variations on ‘With Arms Wide Open.'”
Newsday: Gives Chris and the guys a B-, saying the band “takes some cool chances” … but “then there’s ‘Battleships,’ with the stunningly weird chorus of “We love like battleships … And the cannon goes, ‘Boom boo-boom boom boo-boom boom boom,'” which is, well, crazy, and you wonder if he’s gone too far.”
Boston Globe: There’s no rating, but the reviewer writes that “Chris Daughtry shifts gears on his fourth record by stepping away from the arena guitar rock that made him a star. Reinvention is always admirable, but it has to be done more imaginatively than this to succeed.”
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