Louisville, Kentucky’s White Reaper have announced their highly anticipated new album, You Deserve Love, which will be released on October 18th via Elektra Records. The record was recorded with producer Jay Joyce in Nashville, Tennessee and serves as the follow-up to their 2017 album, The World’s Best American Band. Pre-orders for the new record can be found here.
Reflecting on the album title, vocalist/guitarist Tony Esposito shares that the name for the record came from a note on bassist Sam Wilkerson’s phone. “He had written things down he thought might be good album titles, and we were all sitting around at a bar in Nashville after we had just finished recording, vexing about what we were going to call the album.”
Wilkerson explained, “I started reading them aloud at the bar, and everyone stopped me at You Deserve Love,” adding, “I think it’s cool, because it’s true for everybody. I think it’s what everybody needs to hear.”
To celebrate the announcement of the new album, White Reaper have also dropped a new single called “1F,” which you can stream below.
This fall, White Reaper have will head on a headlining North American tour. Support will be coming from The Dirty Nil and The Nude Party in respective markets, with additional support coming from The Paranoyds, Criminal Hygiene, Wombo, Being Dead an Charles Irwin joining on select dates.
Check out all of the upcoming tour dates from White Reaper below, as well as the album artwork and track-listing for You Deserve Love.
Artwork:
Track-listing:
- Headwind
- Real Long Time
- Saturday
- 1F
- Hard Luck
- Raw
- Might Be Right
- Eggplant
- Ring
- You Deserve Love
Tour Dates:
Aug 27 – London, UK – The Camden Assembly Pub
Aug 29 – Glasgow, UK – Indian Summer Festival
Aug 31 – Stradbally, Ireland – Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival
Sep 15 – Chicago, IL – Riot Fest
Sep 22 – Louisville, KY – Bourbon & Beyond Festival
Sep 27 – Dana Point, CA – Ohana Music Festival
Sep 29 – Louisville, KY – Louder than Life Festival
Oct 03 – St. Louis, MO – The Firebird <3*
Oct 04 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews <3*
Oct 05 – St. Paul, MN – Amsterdam Bar & Grill <3*
Oct 07 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge <3*
Oct 08 – Billings, MT – Yellowstone Valley Brewery <3^
Oct 10 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile <3^
Oct 11 – Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore Ballroom <3^
Oct 13 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge <3^
Oct 15 – Sacramento, CA – Holy Diver <3^
Oct 16 – Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone Berkeley <3^
Oct 17 – Felton, CA – Felton Music Hall <3^
Oct 19 – Los, Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom <3^
Oct 20 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar ^
Oct 22 – Austin, TX – Barracuda ^%
Oct 23 – Dallas, TX – Deep Ellum Art Co ^%
Oct 24 – Memphis, TN – Hi-Tone # 🙂
Oct 26 – Gainesville, FL – High Dive &#
Oct 27 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (Hell) &#
Oct 28 – Charlotte, NC – Amo’s Southend &#
Oct 29 – Chattanooga, TN – Songbirds South & #
Oct 31 – Washington, DC – U Street &#
Nov 01 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts &#
Nov 02 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair &#
Nov 03 – Hamden, CT – The Space &#
Nov 05 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom &#
Nov 07 – Albany, NY – The Hollow &#
Nov 08 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern &#
Nov 09 – Detroit, MI – El Club &#
Nov 10 – Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar &#
Nov 11 – Pittsburgh, PA – Smiling Moose
Nov 23 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Riptide Festival
& – The Nude Party
* – The Paranoyds
% – Being Dead
^ – Criminal Hygiene
# – Wombo
🙂 – Charles Irwin
