After a no-sell sophomore slump and a lineup overhaul, these tattooed L.A. love boys returned from nowhere to move more than a million copies of their third album, 15. Landing the apologetic power ballad “Sorry” onto pop radio and the unapologetic bump-and-grind “Crazy Bitch” into strip clubs turned their career around. Now they fluctuate between those two poles while their by-the-book hard rock continues to split the difference between Black Crowes and Guns N’ Roses—though no longer with the wit that fueled their coke-y 1999 breakout, “Lit Up.” Two change-ups stand out: the fuming teen-tantrum hoedown “A Child Called ‘It’” and the supercharged metal raver “Fallout.” The rest neatly divides into unconvincing sap aimed at girls who’d love to save a bad boy and substance-abuse celebrations too self-satisfied to bother making riffs stick.

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