White Reaper

You Deserve Love

Full of positive energy, the band's major-label debut, motivated by fun, respects the rules of the classic, american, power-pop party and turns the place upside down.
Enjoy!

i felt nothing while listening to this.
not fun, not sadness...just nothing, and after having heard their previous albums i really don't find what's on here all that special.

The lyrics remain basic, the production is lifeless and the performances are sub-par.

Perhaps what's even more disappointing is that they are capable of greatness but time and time again i come away from their albums only having found two to three tracks that i can genuinely enjoy.
In this case it's 'Hard Luck' and ... read more

White Reaper shouldn’t work as well as they do. Their fusion of full-on 70s glam rock, accessible punk, and 90s power pop is extremely on-the-nose, teetering perilously close to revivalism for the wrong generation crowd. Yet they continue to succeed not by having anything particularly timely to say, but by consistently releasing remarkably catchy, enjoyable, all-killer-no-filler albums that more than vindicate their obvious exhibition of their influences. “You Deserve Love” ... read more

FAVORITE SONG: Headwind

LEAST FAVORITE SONG: Ring

Revisiting this album and I believe it really is an underrated gem. I didn't see it getting a lot of attention when it dropped so I wanna give it a proper review now. White Reaper is a band from Louisville that sounds like a band that formed and released this album in the mid 1990s. It has a vibe very similar to Enema of the State and The Blue Album that rock and power pop doesn't really encapsulate anymore. Their songs feel like triumphant ... read more