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Aaron Roche

HaHa HuHu is the beautiful new album by Brooklyn-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Roche. Released through figureight records, the album acts as an anchor for Roche’s contrasting narratives: a singer-songwriter with an ear for the avant-garde; a contemporary composer who sings American folk music; an instrumentalist who works as a recording engineer.

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Lyrically fogged with abstraction, Roche writes that HaHa HuHu is a record of his grappling with mental illness over the years of the album’s construction. But it is not as bleak as this admission might suggest. We are given lines like: "Canyon walls are echoing sadness / The howl and sarcasm / I'll stay here alone now / I'm fine alone." The picture is of inquisitiveness and discovery, not submission.

 

HaHa HuHu was released worldwide on September 8th.

Aaron Roche | HaHa HuHu

F8002 | Sept 22nd 2017 | LP & DIG

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“A spellbinding hymn...incantatory vocal phrases repeating atop rising and falling tide[s] of noise and subtly glitchy percussion...Magical.”
Stereogum

"A striking effort that steeps its spare songs in fractured electronics, heady harmonies, and manic counter-melodies."
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"Aaron Roche is in a league all on his own...beautiful, emotional and oddly hopeful…
With HaHa HuHu he exceeded all expectations and has delivered an album that stands out...A true work of art."
4.5/5 stars
The Spill Magazine

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"HaHa HuHu is as captivating as it is beautiful and strange."
THRDCOAST

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"The beauty of this music cannot be denied. Brian Eno would be impressed."
Audio Fuzz


“[Roche] effortlessly weaves together threads of contemporary composition, American folk traditions and avant garde noise rock in a refreshingly unpretentious way.”
TimeOut NYC
 
“Beautiful and haunting.”
Feast of Music
 
“We have been moved by the songs of Aaron Roche.”
WQXR, NYC

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