Thirteen years into the game, MxPx have gone from being fresh-scrubbed high school students playing punk with a Christian bent to wizened vets in a scene where musicians barely into their thirties are practically middle-aged. For PANIC, these Washington natives have instead turned towards a more traditional, SoCal punk sound. Amid the harmonies and choppy guitar are opportunities to play spot-the-influence. "Late Again" has a cow-punk vibe melded with soccer-style chanting that comes off as Social Distortion-meets-Dropkick Murphys. Although not as breakneck as Bad Religion, MxPx does a fair approximation of the former on "Kicking and Screaming," with vocalist/bassist Mike Herrera sounding farily close to BR frontman Greg Graffin. MxPx is still a pop-punk band at heart, so angst still plays a major role in the songwriting, with Herrera lamenting life on the road within the confines of the mid-tempo, Blink-182-like "Wrecking Hotel Rooms" (featuring Blink's Mark Hoppus) and railing at love's injustice on the anthemic "Emotional Anarchist."