To sum it up for you: summer is coming in hot and that means… road trips. Whether you’re packing your best friends into a van or taking off on a romantic getaway down south, you’ll need a quintessential classic rock playlist that mixes in your favourite Deep Purple bangers and Led Zeppelin epics. It’s also the year 2017, so you should probably — no, definitely — include one (or six) of WHITE REAPER’sodes to the golden age of rock ‘n’ roll, from their latest LP The World’s Best American Band.

With face-melting licks and the dazzling strut of some blessed Cheap Trick and Van Halen mashup, the Louisville-based foursome’s new record is no joke. The hooks are devilish (“The Stack”, “Little Silver Cross”), the drums induce some serious dashboard banging (“Tell Me”), and the riffs (“Daisies”, “Judy French”) rage on like the house party you never want to end. As a whole, the effort is more polished and punched up than White Reaper and Does It Again combined, and it’s why we had to chat with guitarist Tony Esposito about the group’s new found confidence. In our opinion, The World’s Best American Band is not only one of the best rock albums of 2017, it’s kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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