Young Rival (Hamilton, Canada)

Hamilton’s Young Rival entered the studio to record their new full-length record with producer Graham Walsh (Viet Cong, Alvvays, METZ) with no deadlines and an unrelenting vision of sound. The band’s Aron D’Alesio, Noah Fralick and John Smith took a bag of songs and worked them until they were more “Young Rival” than Young Rival has ever been before. Interior Light is the band’s first album for Toronto’s Paper Bag Records and sounds like Roy Orbison tripping on acid with Ray Davies and Bradford Cox. Let’s call it “croon-psych” and let’s play it loud.