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Gelli Haha x Switcheroo

"This is a bright, pop-trance record that will also likely resonate with the Chappell Roan crowd." FLOOD

"On Switcheroo, Gelli Haha’s new album, she raises a big top large enough to contain stoned revelation, gross-out humor, and a stockpile of bizarro sound effects. With its riotously fun production and full-barreled commitment to silliness, Switcheroo does more than earn its freak card: It firmly establishes Abaya as a brilliant young talent to watch." Pitchfork

"10 jaunty, addictive tracks...Gelli Haha wields her sincerity as expertly as her myriad analogue electronics, and emerges as art-synth-pop's wiliest new trickster god." Fader

Cool Band Alert… “a veritable buffet of dancefloor-ready sounds, from bubbly disco rave-ups and gritty underground club bangers, to stretched out slow jams that ache with sincerity.” Bandcamp

“A delightfully deranged party girl whose bleepy vintage synths, sleazy chug and tireless disco keeps things weird in the right way” The Guardian

“Gelli Haha is ready for her close-up. The LA artist’s debut LP is for fans of weird and whimsical pop concoctions, offering 10 tracks that would feel at home in either a contemporary art exhibit or a discotheque.” The Boston Globe

“well worth your attention” KCRW

“… an album of such effervescence it is practically a geyser” The Quietus

Gelli Haha’s stellar debut album Switcheroo is here. A shapeshifter, a sonic acrobat, a performer with one foot in the cosmos and the other in arthouse theatrics, Gelli Haha (pronounced Jelly-Haha) is a space for pure creative chaos that exists somewhere between Studio 54 and Area 51. Gelli’s music thrives on duality: playful but profound, tongue-in-cheek but sincere. Switcheroo is the soundtrack to the Gelliverse, a sensory adventure sphere created by Gelli.

With a shared taste for off-kilter pop and vintage gear, producer Sean Guerin (of De Lux) joined Gelli in turning freshly-formed demos into a high-voltage experiment, abandoning meticulous structure for something freer and more electrifying. Every song on Switcheroo makes use of a myriad of recording toys; wacky analog effects, such as the Eventide Harmonizer, MXR Pitch Transposer, and various Electrix units, fashion an intentionally flawed and strictly silly texture throughout the album. Switcheroo is an exercise in letting go, an inside joke turned theatrical spectacle.

Check out the album at this link.