Kevin Bronson on December 12th, 2016

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Damn the computers, full speed ahead? The music of L.A. duo Trashclub sees the pendulum swinging from gadget- and effects-obsessed dance music back to guitar-and-drum basics — at least for principals Evan Andree and Travis Bunn. Andree, a songwriter/producer originally from Atlanta whose music has appeared in “Bad Girls Club” and “16 and Pregnant,” and Bunn, a Tempe, Ariz., ex-pat who was part of the alt-R&B outfit Dead Times, originally got together during a session to write for other artists. “I couldn’t be in a sterile, two-computers-at-the-kitchen-table writing session,” Bunn says. “This shit was a totally different agenda. This was like, drums, guitar, beer. Loud. Let’s do it.”

With Andree on vocals and guitar and Bunn playing drums and doing backing vocals, they arrived at a dance-punk sound inspired, the duo says, by the darker, seedier side of L.A. The first single “Outta My Head” was featured on Showtime’s “Shameless.” It’s not the grittiest dance-punk on the landscape — in fact, it might be a bit rosy-cheeked compared to somebody like Moving Units — but the spiked riffs and chugging beats aspire to that world. Trashclub’s debut EP “Black Out” will be out March 10 via Position Music.

||| Stream: “Outta My Head”