Ears Wide Open: American Royalty

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“I got an obsession,” Billy Scher and Marc Gilfry repeat in “Lately,” their first single as American Royalty. But after you’ve ridden the song’s roller-coaster for 4 1/2 minutes, you realize the fixations L.A. songwriters have at least a couple of fixations – grimy synths and dirty blues rock among them. Full of samples and artillery-fire electronic beats, American Royalty’s forthcoming EP “El Ardemo” (on Guns in the Sun) bumps and grinds between danceable house music and mullet-worthy classic rock. The band, which includes drummer/electronic wiz Richard Morris, has played only a handful of shows, but one was for the HARD Haunted Mansion warm-up party. Trick or treat?

||| Download: “Lately”

||| Live: American Royalty celebrates its EP release with a show Saturday night at the Bootleg Theater.