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Oct 23, 2015While State Champs is not necessarily reinventing the idea of what it means to be a pop punk band, they’ve sure as hell perfected it.
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Kerrang!Oct 16, 2015There's a maturity--or at least a noticeable growth--in the band's sound and abilities. [10 Oct 2015, p.50]
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Oct 16, 2015The group put enough spin on the source material to make these songs their own. [Nov 2015, p.97]
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Oct 16, 2015Around the World and Back is far from the final destination for these champions of New York pop punk/rock, but it's a definite step forward on their journey to take the world, and their genre, by storm.
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Oct 16, 2015The quintet still perform pop-punk better than many of their contemporaries, and it should be noted that this LP sounds significantly more effective when played out loud, rather than through head or earphones... But it’s difficult to ignore the feeling that they are capable of better.
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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May 5, 2021banger. every song slaps live. champs are one of the best pop punk bands of the 2010s and will continue to release exclusively bangers
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Apr 5, 2016