Video: Night Riots, ‘Nothing Personal’

Kevin Bronson on October 21st, 2016

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“Love Gloom,” Night Riots’ debut album and bid for alt-rock world domination, came out today via Sumerian Records, complete with enough muscle to move the (radio) dial. Complete with 12 rockers, three interludes that’ll test your Latin and the emotional machinations of frontman Travis Hawley, it was produced by Joe Chiccarelli, whose wall space is filled with shiny platters, having won three Grammys, seven Latin Grammys and host of other honors. He’s captured the Templeton-bred quintet’s brawny, synth-spiked passion, which occupies the sonic territory between ’80s mope-rock heroes and next-gen Killers and does a nimble dance between the exuberant and the apoplectic. Which is exactly what Hawley and mates Nick Fotinakes, Matt DePauw, Mikel Van Kranenburg and Rico Rodriguez intended. “‘Love Gloom’ is about a collision of emotions,” Hawley says. “We wanted to create an album that’ll make you feel ecstasy and despair, like you’re climaxing and suffocating at the same time.” His both sides star in director Cameron Alexander’s video for the big single “Nothing Personal.”

||| Watch: The video for “Nothing Personal”