White Reaper Return With Honestly
It’s been a wild week with some of our ATH mainstays dropping new tunes, and today seems to be no different with old time Kentucky favorites White Reaper also hitting us with something fresh. This one has really lifted my spirits in knowing the band plans to carry on after some recent turmoil over the last couple of years with lineup changes, label issues, and general burnout. With this new track, “Honestly,” my heart is happy to hear a band dealing with the struggle lyrically while still churning out a fantastic rock n roll hit. Things do get a touch poppier here with more keys and softer bass, so change is coming, but I for one welcome the evolution and welcome the boys back.
This track is part of the new White Reaper album entitled One Slightly Empty which is due out on September 26th via the band’s new label Blue Grape Music.
It’s well known that we ATH kids love our old emo and 00s indie music, hell, it’s how this whole thing got started in the first place. So it would make sense for us to naturally feel a connection with upstart emo and indie booking collective 
Per discussions with lots of pals in the music community here in ATX, it’s often easy to get bogged down with the current state of scenes and styles – rock, shoegaze, gimmicks, and what have you. While combing through it all, often it is a welcome change to find an artist who can cut loose from the norm and get back to true songwriting at its core. Really, that’s what Austin has always been about.