Kin Hana — Howling World
Black Meadow • October 16, 2026
“Howling World” — August 28, 2026
“Earthrise” — September 25, 2026
ALBUM TEASER
Kin Hana is the drone-folk project of Hudson Valley songwriter and guitarist Aaron Carroll Hodges. His songs begin in an intimate, unguarded place, often with little more than voice and guitar, but rarely stay there; they move outward into music that can feel vast, ominous and unexpectedly beautiful. His third album, Howling World, inhabits that divide, suspended somewhere between solitude and apocalypse.
Written largely in the aftermath of 2020 and recorded in living rooms in the Catskills, Howling World took shape as a stark, stripped-down record in the spirit of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon, then gradually expanded into something more lush and cinematic. Strings and layered voices began to gather around the songs, while synths and distant feedback blurred their edges, giving the music a spectral unease.
The title track was inspired by René Magritte’s Young Girl Eating a Bird, its violent image of a girl turning away from the world even as she devours it, while “Earthrise” takes its name and perspective from the landmark NASA photograph of Earth above the lunar horizon. Across the record, the personal keeps colliding with something much larger, a world that remains mysterious and capable of howling back.
Howling World moves between restraint and scale, with its private songs periodically giving way to darker, more awe-struck passages. That tension reaches its fullest expression on the penultimate piece, “Shōmetsu / Kodō,” where the arrangements build into a towering surge of guitars, drums and horns.
SELECTED PRESS FOR KIN HANA
“His lush and somber songs are immersive... waves of ominous orchestral beauty well up as if attempting to out-shout the rising noise.” — STEREOGUM
“...swaths of eerie soundscapes... beneath vocals that are communicating something either quite soothing or perhaps even a little sinister.” — POPMATTERS
“His electric guitar work is porous enough to accommodate lilting acoustic strumming, melodies, and soft ambient sounds. A low rumble of feedback... threatens to engulf the music—as if Godzilla had just awakened close to someone playing an acoustic guitar at a campfire...” — BANDCAMP DAILY
“...stripped right back to acoustic guitar, pitched somewhere between the stark poetry of Jason Molina and the warm sincerity of Mt. Eerie... subtle orchestral up-drafts and whispered samples culminating in a soaring, shimmering climax.” — VARIOUS SMALL FLAMES
CONTACT
Aaron Carroll Hodges / Kin Hana