I don't know what you mean by carrying on the blink tradition mainly because I never listened to Blink182. I didn't even know that +44 and AVA were branches off of Blink for a while. Anyways I think AVA sounds a hell of a lot better than +44, +44 is too much like every other band out there, same old sound/same old messages. AVA has a fresh sound to it, there is no other band that is directly related to it in sound, and it's lyrics are more meaningful.(IMO)