State Champion

Presented by: Crushing Death & Grief

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0	CAMBRIDGE: The Blue Moon
P	Sunday 3rd November, 2019
N	7:30pm

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STATE CHAMPION
Is the term alt.country now verboten? Is it tarnished by association, and is it even applicable to any type of music anyway? Let's assume the worst, and instead defer to Byron Coley's classification system to insist to you that State Champion are the stand-out Beard Rock ensemble of our time. Formed at art school in Chicago back in '08, the group are now spread across the Midwest of the US but periodically form like Voltron to cram themselves into a van or shonky studio and serve up dusty power-pop, honky-tonk choogling and semi-urban country ballads. 2018 album "Death Preferences" is an exceptional set of whipsmart college-rock shufflers and cracked-Nashville chuggers, released by the prolific and superb Feeding Tube Records - usually home to more outre folks like Sunburned Hand Of The Man and Gary War as well as our local heroes C Joynes and The Doozer. Most notable of all is the staggering brilliance of Ryan Davis's infinitely quotable lyrics. Hailed by David "Silver Jews" Berman, no less, as "the best lyricist who’s not a rapper going" , Davis conjures up endless vivid yet small scenes of flyover America, all injected with a big nugget of sparky humour. If you ever mentally shoehorned Warren Zevon into a frontman role with Magnolia Electric Co. or wrote to your MP demanding that Lucero and Bill Callaghan amalgamate, put down your pen and pay tribute to State Champion.
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