White Reaper

After winning the favor of their native Louisville with their spring-loaded live shows, White Reaper arrive with their debut EP, a 16-minute blast of energetic hooks that draw from the Ramones, the earliest inklings of British Invasion-era proto-punk, and the Jay Reatard/Ty Segall axis of the current garage-rock renaissance.

Debut EP from Louisville trio finds the band attempting to make garage punk all their own, with mostly positive results.

The debut EP by the Kentucky trio White Reaper is a bracing blast of garage punk bubblegum that hits the sweet spot between grungy garage rock guitar noise and handclapping pop, and ends up sounding like Nobunny on steroids or a more together version of most of the bands on Burger Records.