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White reaper12/28/2022 ![]() With You Deserve Love, they had everything demoed out in advance. ![]() They fell behind and had to book more studio time. Sometimes they would work for 10 hours and walk away with nothing. They had a few iPhone Voice Memos made with loose ideas, but the majority of that album was written on the spot. Two years ago, they wrote The World’s Best American Band almost entirely in the studio. “I think the hope we had making it found its way into the ether of the record in some kind of abstract sense,” keys player Ryan Hater said. “And then we got in the studio and we were like, ‘Oh yeah, this is what this feels like. “Things fell into place at the perfect time, before everyone went off the deep end,” Esposito said. They ended up signing with a major label, Elektra Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which provided a large studio budget. Were they going to loose the momentum that they gained in 2017 from the widely well-received album, The World’s Best American Band? But, everything worked out. They felt like they weren’t moving forward. Before they went into the studio this past January, the band said they felt like they weren’t in a good place. You Deserve Love was recorded over two weeks in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce. And I think every time we have went in the studio, we’ve made a better record than the one before by simply using the skill that we’ve crafted on the road to just do it better.” “And I think it feels really good to have that mindset. “To us, it feels like we’re the same band - we’re just getting better,” singer-guitarist Tony Esposito added. We don’t want this to be the same game three times.” And I think that’s what we’re doing with this. I guess, what I’m saying, what I like about those games is how there was something different in every game and it’s not the same game twice. In the second Tony Hawk game, they introduced manualing - they progressed - and in the third Tony Hawk game, they introduced reverts and other stuff and more combos. When the first Tony Hawk game came out, you could grind in it, but you couldn’t revert or manual. “I have a good analogy for this,” Wilkerson said. To explain their slow and careful evolution, drummer Nick Wilkerson supplied a video game reference. It’s packed with rich, new-wave-leaning tones and dense atmospheres, but the giant guitars and gritty bubblegum sensibilities still remain. 18, the band releases their fourth album, You Deserve Love, their most ambitious and wide-ranging yet. Their distinct hook-heavy, high-energy rock with splashes of punk and pop is still immediately identifiable, but they have moved past the straight-forward minimalist fury that defined their early records, embracing something with more breathability and complexity. White Reaper has spent the last half decade moving in subtle shifts.
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