★★★★★
'Smile Kid', the sophomore offering from Florida's pop-rock long-haired types We The Kings, is an easy listen if ever there was one. Granted, this isn't always a good thing. And this is one such case. One might label this as 'background noise' or, to put it simply, 'dull'...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Sound: First off, I want to say that skill of every one in the band is amazing. I don't understand why some of the songs they make are lackluster and boring. They always have some really cool bridges though. They have done some Interesting things in the studio with new instruments like the strings used on "Friday Is Forever" and on "You And Only You". The overall mood of the album is upbeat and happy.....
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
I have to be brutally honest here. This single disappointed me. A lot. We The Kings set themselves the best possible benchmark with their self-titled debut album, but this offering from their sophomore album falls a long way short of that. On a personal level, this is the only track I've heard from the album "Smile Kid" and if this is a taster then I won't be looking to spend my money on it too quickly based on this taster...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2011-12-19
★★★★★
Florida's We The Kings have always dwelt in a somewhat lonely corner of the music world. Singer Travis Clark is pretty enough to be a heart-throb for the teen crowd, and their pop melodies are plenty radio friendly, but there's also an alternative rock or pop-punk edge to their sound, and maybe even something a little bit 1970s cowboy-shirt pop for the older crowd to latch onto...
- www.beat.com.au
2011-09-29
★★★★★
We The Kings' third full-length finds the band once and for all abandoning the pop-punk sound that put them on the map following the release of their 2007 self-titled debut. Not that this is terribly surprising: As was the case on 2009's Smile Kid, the Florida quartet have moved past the pop-punk universe in favor of an unabashed pop tilt, one ultimately bereft of much emotion or feeling...
- www.altpress.com
2011-08-01
★★★★★
We The Kings' third full-length finds the band once and for all abandoning the pop-punk sound that put them on the map following the release of their 2007 self-titled debut. Not that this is terribly surprising: As was the case on 2009's Smile Kid, the Florida quartet have moved past the pop-punk universe in favor of an unabashed pop tilt, one ultimately bereft of much emotion or feeling...
- www.altpress.com
2011-07-25
★★★★★
We The Kings are probably most well known in Australia for their track that took over the airwaves at the start of the year, "Check Yes Juliet" (regardless of the fact the song was already about 3 years old.)Sunshine State Of Mind is their third studio album and unfortunately the band has failed in maturing their sound in any sort of way, shape or form. We The Kings have always been the band you can count on to write catchy, summery songs, with addictive choruses...
- www.theaureview.com
2011-07-18
★★★★★
Summary: What happens to a redhead in the summer sunshine. With singles charts becoming less relevant with each passing year, some strange occurrences are now prone to take place. One such happening is We The Kings' 'Check Yes Juliet' spending 17 consecutive weeks in the Australian top 50. What is so strange about this? It's still there... more than three years after its initial release...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-07-11
★★★★★
Release Date: July 5, 2011 (iTunes) / July 12, 2011 (everywhere) We The Kings have traveled down quite the path over the past four years. They hit it pretty big in the pop-rock scene with their debut self-titled record back in 2007. However, although this record put them on the map and made it seem the band could write catchy, summery riffs and hooks, these notions proved short lived, as what followed was simply a massive sophomore slump...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-07-11
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