If you've been longing for the love child of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, the Championship delivers. Singer Joe Crockett is the vocal doppelganger of Springsteen with a bit of Johnny Cash baritone thrown in to keep it dark. The band channels Cash through many a lyrical turn as well, particularly on "The Ballad of Maxwell Simmons," which seems to be about "dancing with the devil" and murder, in fairly morbid detail.

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