Riothorse Royale is an indie rock duo that pulsated into life when two girls and an electric guitar conjured a venomous ghost choir. Madi Diaz and Emily Greene have voices that are velvet and vulnerable, but their sound isn’t precious, it’s perilous. They sing with guts and fury and pure adrenaline.

The two met in Boston while attending the Berklee College of Music, but their musical journeys never crossed until they found themselves in Silverlake. They soon began to find catharsis through their songs and their wails. Diaz grew up in Amish Country, home-schooled and without cable. Greene was born in Miami, shaped by the city’s slick, loud energy. Diaz’s cocksure guitar slaying and Greene’s rocker swagger make for a dangerous elixir of musical chemistry.

Diaz and Greene cut an elegant little starburst of a demo tape and called it Riothorse Royale, later naming the EP “The Guest House.” It’s stripped down, skeletal, and intimate. It’s incomplete and imperfect. But it’s in those gaps we see its reach exceed its grasp. The EP melds together the sacred and profane; the grotesque and the gorgeous. It’s frightened, desperate, and brave. Riothorse Royale didn’t write songs, they wrote ghost stories. The sound is hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic. It’s plush and sexy as hell.

Buzzbands LA describes the vibe as embodying "that certain Crosby Stills & Nash warmth" with a "metronomic pace [that] is almost trance-inducing."

Liz Phair is also a fan, recently tweeting, “My very favorite thing right now, esp. Live: RIOTHORSE. Joy Division meets The Raincoats.”