Shadows on a River

management: Adam Klavohn
booking: Adam Klavohn
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Shadows on a River is as impermanent as the name suggests.  When founding member, David Henson, dissolved The Infinity Room in 2006 he didn’t imagine that two years later he would be recording a new LP with most of those same guys under a new name in Chicago.  He also couldn’t have imagined that two days after finishing the record he would move to China for 5 months, return to Chicago just as the album was being released and then move to Wyoming a few months later. David is digging his heels into the dirt of the Great West and touring in support of the band’s 2009 self-titled release.

Recorded in a Chicago apartment over a period of almost nine months, the self-titled debut includes songs written over the past four years, enough time to give a certain depth of feeling to the album.  It captures a period of leaving college without a plan, moving to a large, cold city without money and the battle between the youthful stabs at optimism and the desperation of creating your own world.  It started without a plan and became shaped chaos that was the closest approximation to pop music that the band could pull off.

“Meshing experimental psychedelica (complete with bells, keys, tamborines, etc) with low-key choruses and warm vocals, Shadows on a River stir the body’s insides to ease. Comfort, gratification, pleasure – such adjectives come to mind. While I’m not really one to blow steam all that often, I expect this Chicago based band to make it to the top of the indie world in no time with more efforts like their self-titled gem. You’ll be doing yourself a disservice if you don’t listen.”
-knoxroad.com

“This is the best unsigned band I’ve heard so far this year[...]The kind of album you want to put on to get lost in. One that opens up and evolves with each and every listen.”
-theocmd.com

“…their debut, self-titled album is an amazingly accomplished and rich record that I’ve heard compared to Grizzly Bear and, to my ears, a bit of “Bends” era Radiohead. No small feat, that.”
-loudlooppress.com

“I literally saved up to buy his latest album. I haven’t saved up to buy an album since I was 14.”
-appendixej.com