For a "dark" synth indie-pop band, NRVS LVRS has a very optimistic sound. Their 2015 full-length The Golden West is rich in ethereal summer-feel hits—"City Lights" for walking around in speckled darkness, "Black Diamonds" for the hot wind in your hair through a car window. There's a game happening between the low, gravelly vocals of Andrew Gomez and the higher ranges of Wendy Brents and Bevin Fernandez, an uneven push-pull that could grate, soothe, or both. Check them out at a skateboarding collective in middle-deep Southeast or, if that's too outie (it's Saturday, come on), they're also playing Rontoms on Sunday with Mattress and Reptaliens. SUZETTE SMITH