In just a couple of years, White Reaper has graduated from
headlining a tiny New York club, Coney
Island Baby, to the considerably larger Bowery Ballroom tonight. White Reaper's following has grown in
direct parallel to the band's trajectory towards a cleaner pop sound. The
musicians are in their mid-20s, and increasingly they are gravitating to a
1980s pop genre that pre-dated their birth. Light lead vocals, crisp harmonies,
rallying choruses, twin-guitar leads and bouncy rhythms dominated the cheerful
songs. Curiously, however, the band's bubble-gum rock has been burnished so
slickly that one would think the band's potential audience is not old enough to
get into an alcohol-serving establishment.
Setlist:
- I Don't Think She Cares
- Pills
- Little Silver Cross
- Raw
- Crystal Pistol
- Sheila
- Last 4th of July
- Ring
- Real Long Time
- Make Me Wanna Die
- The World's Best American Band
- Might Be Right
- 1F
- Daisies
- Half Bad
- Encore:
- The Stack
- You Deserve Love
- Judy French
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