![]() The EP’s six songs have the raw attack of a demo, but with so much more polish - maybe White Reaper’s greatest gift is the ability to constantly craft catchy, melodic flourishes. They take an idea and develop it into a quick, clever and ambiguous DIY ball of fury. The songs aren’t overly complicated, but they’re also not vapid, mundane or stagnant. White Reaper’s self-titled EP is the band at their most visceral - a no-frills, 16-minute rollercoaster ride full of youthful angst, stories about the painfully cool kids and fears about society’s never-ending quest to sink its teeth into the young and the creative. tour hits home at Headliners Music Hall on Saturday, March 25, we thought it would be a good time to revisit the band’s first five (post-demo) albums to track how their sound has branched in different directions.īelow are short breakdowns of the albums, each featuring insight from a different member of the band. “I think we’re just trying to keep it interesting for ourselves, and, at least the way I look at it, add new things to our live set that maybe we don’t have, and searching for things in that way sort of leads us to new-ish grounds,” Esposito said.īefore White Reaper’s current U.S. Singer-guitarist Tony Esposito told LEO that the changes from record to record stem from the band not wanting to get bored - or, even worse, have stale live shows. It seems like just yesterday when kids were climbing into the rafters at local venues during those bonkers early White Reaper shows, but now, five albums and a decade into their career, the five-piece band are hard-touring veterans with a fairly deep and definitely eclectic discography.įrom the breakneck garage punk of the early days to the thrash metal inspirations of their 2023 record, Asking For A Ride, Louisville’s White Reaper has incrementally shifted their sound to stay in front of redundancy. ![]()
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