STATE CHAMPS PREMIERE NEW SINGLE ‘CRYSTAL BALL’

Pop punk heroes State Champs have premiered new song ‘Crystal Ball‘. The track is taken from the bands recently announced new record ‘Living Proof‘  which will be released on June 15, 2018 on Pure Noise Records.

 “‘Crystal Ball‘ is a song about personal investment of time and effort while questioning the outcome and worth of it all. Everyone has to find their own way to seize the moment and stay on their path. Musically, we tried some new things and thought outside of the box to bring a catchy, yet technical dynamic to Champs which we are very excited about”, says singer Derek Discanio.

Additionally, you can also watch State Champs‘ previously released video for ‘Dead And Gone‘ taken from ‘Living Proof‘.

‘Living Proof‘ was recorded in two different sessions with different teams assisting the band. The first session saw John Feldmann producing, who brought his knack for writing hit records—which he’s done for bands like Blink-182 and Good Charlotte—into the fold. But State Champs wouldn’t let their old-school roots die, teaming up with Mike Green and Kyle Black, the pair that shepherded ‘Around The World And Back‘ across the finish line.

“If there was only one chance we had at beating the sound of Around The World And Back, we still had to have them involved” said DiScanio. With the recording process split in two, it allowed State Champs to write and record more songs than ever before, culling it down to the most potent batch possible. “At the end of the writing and recording process, we had 19 or 20 songs. We looked at each other like, ‘Holy shit. What the hell? This has never happened before” he said.

Not only that, State Champs collaborated with some of pop-punk’s heaviest hitters, as the band co-wrote songs with Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low and Mark Hoppus from Blink-182. Though State Champs had no intention of working with Hoppus, the punk legend stopped by Feldmann’s studio while the band was recording and quickly took a liking to them Before long, Hoppus was helping the band write a pair of songs, working with DiScanio on the lyrics, and then jumping in the vocal booth to lay down some parts of his own. “We had no idea he was even coming in” said DiScanio “Then the next day, me and Mark Hoppus are just sitting out by John Feldmann’s pool writing lyrics from scratch. And that ultimately ended up being ‘Dead And Gone,’ which is the first single on the record”