Run River North

“Pretty Lies” is the latest single from the band, Run River North. Out now via their own independent label Monsters Calling Home, the track stemmed from a collaboration with fellow Los Angeles indie rock trio Sir Sly. They hope to release a new album this fall. For now, the band has shared a socially-distanced “Pretty Lies” video, co-directed by RRN’s Daniel Chae and photographer Serro Park. The video is a perfect complement to the song, culminating with a beautiful shot of RRN’s three band members (Chae, Hwang, and Sally Kang) performing in separate windows of an empty parking garage.

“Serro had come to our last live show before the shutdown at the Echoplex here in Los Angeles,” RRN’s Alex Hwang says. “We had mutual friends but his photography—especially his film work in the low-light, frantic world of live music—was INCREDIBLY impressive and he had a really great eye. We decided to figure a way to work with him and felt like lockdown LA was an eerie canvas to shoot and walk around.”

“’Pretty Lies’ came from our first meet and session with Sir Sly. The three of us in RRN met the three of them down in their studio in the [Orange County], and after the initial awkwardness of all writing sessions we found a beat and some chords that we all enjoyed.”

The L.A.-based Korean-American band, Run River North, is made up of Daniel Chae (guitars, violin and vocals), Alex Hwang (lead vocals and guitars) and Sally Kang (keyboards, bass and vocals). They formed in 2011 and have put out two full-length albums; “Run River North” (2014) and “Drinking From A Salt Pond” (2016).

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