Taking its name from novelist Jack London's 1904 seafaring adventure, Sea Wolf has evolved organically from its hermetic origins in Alex Brown Church's living room into a muscular, fullbodied musical entity with passion to burn. After adopting the sobriquet, Church burst onto the music scene in two-fisted fashion with the EP, Get to the River Before It Runs Too Low, and the subsequent full-length debut album, Leaves in the River, about which Interview magazine observed, "His music is both erudite and unvarnished, a blend of swirling melodies, literary balladry and damaged art-rock composition."