White Reaper

EP • Jun 20 / 2014 • 6 songs, 16m 40s • 79%

Garage Punk

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6.6 / 10

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.

7 / 10

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.