Video: Run River North, ‘Spiders’
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After releasing two albums and four EPs for Nettwerk, L.A. indie-rockers Run River North have gone the independent route. And their next phase started with a bang two weeks ago when the trio released the single “Spiders,” a starburst of a rock song that belies its catch-as-catch-can creation.
“This is genuinely a Corona baby song,” says frontman Alex Hwang, explaining that he and singer-keyboardist Sally Kang began writing it just before the COVID-19 shutdown: “Simple chords, some lyrics about imaginary arachnids and a hooky Melotron line.” Hwang’s vocals were recorded on an iPhone with a sock pop filter, and Kang and guitarist Daniel Chae tracked their parts in a Honda (of course, they have some experience making music in cars). Some emails and a couple zoom meetings with producer Miro Mackie, the song was complete.
The cherry on top is the one-shot, Paul Thomas Anderson-inspired music video that Hwang filmed with “essential worker” friends Chris Nguyen and Alvin Joo, all of whom are baristas at the Row DTLA.
||| Watch: The video for “Spiders”
||| Previously: The “Monsters Calling Home” EPs
[…] Records in 2019 hasn’t slowed Run River North one bit — “Pretty Lies,” “Spiders,” “Hummingbird” and “One for Me” are among the singles the Valley trio has […]