'Home' Review from Manchester Evening News

Manchester Evening News

Daughtry - Home (Sony BMG)
Mike Caulfield
7/ 1/2008

IT doesn’t happen too often that an American Idol reject gets heard of over on this side of the Atlantic - especially as we have a healthy crop of our very own languishing in Z-list circles- but Chris Daughtry’s early exit from the TV talent show couldn’t have worked out better for him.

His debut album, ‘Daughtry’, has already been certified triple platinum stateside, with this single being one of the most (over) played tracks heard on the radio last year, and if boasts of exorbitant re-sale tickets for his recent London date are to be believed then the same over-saturation can be expected over here too.

Taking cues from such over blown power-balladeer rockers as Creed and Matchbox Twenty, ‘Home’ - whilst being entirely derivative, overly glossy and soulless - has the kind of unifying chorus that’s hard to ignore, whilst cynically lending itself too easily to teary montage clips.

Whilst normally such unabashed sentimental American rockers fail to make much impact, Nickleback’s ‘How You Remind Me’ being an obvious exception, Daughtry could unfortunately be the exception this year.