Young Rival “Interior Light” 2015. Paper Bag Records, limited 200 edition release on pink vinyl. Jangly, twangy 60′s-inspired indie guitar rock and (self-described) “croon-psych,” Young Rival’s Interior Light recalls the sound of The Strokes,  The Growlers’ surfy beach goth and upbeat dream pop bands.  The first single is the title track, “Interior Light,” has a bright, trippy, jerkily stop-framed video that visually represents the song – and band’s – sunnily weird vibe. The second single Young Rivals released from Interior Light, “Scruples,” “is apparently about a local who visits the bar where singer Aron D’Alesio and bassist John Smith both work. “He’ll walk up to the bar, put his finger over his mouth and say, ‘Shh… call me Scruples,‘” the band say. “One time, he walked up to John and quietly whispered, ‘Have you seen any feet tonight?’” Naturally, Smith and D’Alesio wrote a song about it.” (Flood Magazine) The video Young Rivals made for “Scruples” is weirdly hilarious. I also really like brightly dense melody of  “Carry the Weight,” the swirling frenetic energy of “Elevator” (super-cool video for this one that took two years to make on Oki Data Turboline 320 dot matrix printers) and the Bob Dylan meets The Smiths and goes 21st-century indie-rock on “Where’s It All Going.”