Following up on last year's 2 Ill Cats In a Ford Truck mixtape, which featured the severely slept on cut Real Good Feel, the Illinois duo State Champs are back with a seven track compilation, the Clear Eyes EP. This latest project finds the group expanding slightly beyond the updated Native Tongues sound that they had been successfully developing over the course of their last few releases, and the resulting EP benefits from their experimentation in different styles. It's a project that will definitely keep fans of the group happy, but features enough diversification to keep their formula from getting stale.
Here's my favorite song off of the EP, featuring Johnny Redd, discussing the death of a friend: