Spiritual Cramp & White Reaper Announce 7″ Split Release; Listen To Spiritual Cramp’s “Whatever You Say Man” Featuring White Reaper

Louisville garage rockers, White Reaper, and San Francisco punks, Spiritual Cramp, have come together for a two-song 7” split which is available for pre-order today and due out May 16th on Blue Grape Music. Today you can hear Spiritual Cramp’s contribution featuring White Reaper for “Whatever You Say Man”, a driving and ominous self-reflection about the ups and downs of mental states. Mike Bingham of Spiritual Cramp notes:

“This is a funny song for me. I feel like I should start this blurb off with the disclaimer that I am not usually a depressed person. But, sometimes on a day where I start writing lyrics for a song, I am. Some days I wake up and I look around at all the beauty of the world and I’m moved to tears and overwhelmed with gratitude. Some days I wish I never woke up. This song is about what it feels like to wake up on the wrong side of the bed.”

Comprised of Tony Esposito (guitar / vocals), Ryan Hater (keyboards), Sam Wilkerson (bass), Nick Wilkerson (drums), and Hunter Thompson (guitar), White Reaper’s 2023 studio album Asking for a Ride arrived to a flurry of critical acclaim. “It could be White Reaper’s best album. It’s entirely possible that the album is flat-out-great, maybe even a classic of its form,” declared Uproxx, while Stereogum praised the band’s “Ideal balance of pop accessibility and rocking-the-fuck-out abandon.” Asking for a Ride followed White Reaper’s 2019 album You Deserve Love, which was led by the number one alternative radio hit, “Might Be Right.”  The New York Times observed, “The Kentucky quintet White Reaper blends the winking gravitas of ‘70s arena rock with garage-y power pop… enjoy the trip back,” while GQ applauded the release as “the perfect companion for all your nice weather fun.”  Equal parts glam and grit, You Deserve Love found the band expanding on the songcraft laid down on 2017’s critically acclaimed The World’s Best American Band, which landed on Noisey’s “100 Best Albums of 2017” and Pitchfork’s “20 Best Rock Albums of 2017,” earning an 8.0 album score.

San Francisco punks Spiritual Cramp released their long-awaited self-titled debut LP on November 3rd 2023 via Blue Grape Music. Produced by Michael Bingham and Michael Fenton of the band with additional production from Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, M83, The Linda Linda’s, Cherry Glazerr, etc.) the album received praise and support from likes of Pitchfork, FADER, the highly coveted Stereogum album of the week, The Needle Drop, Clash, Classic Rock, Kerrang!, Line of Best Fit, NME, Notion + much more.

The band brings fast downstrokes and upstrokes with hip-hop production and reggae inspirations to a Taking Heads meets Big Audio Dynamite meets Clash-styled punk, finding a balance between Molotov protest songs and genuine personal struggle heavy with this self-interrogation