Ha the Unclear

Ha the Unclear is a band from the Gothic harbour town of Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand. After a run of lo-fi recordings, the band found themselves amongst the vibrant Auckland music scene while student radio peppered the national airwaves with singles like Growing Mould and Secret Lives of Furniture. This soon translated to wider reception with a string of sold-out national tours and Invisible Lines reaching #9 on the NZ Album Charts. In 2020, elevator anthem ‘Strangers’ peaked at #1 on the Radioscope Alternative Airplay Charts. Accompanying this, the band released a series of unforgettable music videos featuring a room full of furniture meddling in the life of their owner (Secret Lives of Furniture), an astronaut crash landing on a foreign planet (Kosmonavt), and the emergency delivery of a baby puppet in a broken elevator (Strangers). The latter track was later released on the ‘Threads’ EP alongside the Sylvia Massy co-produced 'Julius Caesar’ and time travel lament ‘Supermarket Queues.’

Now signed with Paris-based label Think Zik !, the band has been warmly embraced by French audiences with playlisting on significant national radio including Europe 2, FIP, RTL 2, and France Inter and a milieu of college radio taste harbingers. 2023’s Handprint Negatives EP was released in the EU to critical acclaim with French press describing it as "a sweet madness" (Rolling Stone), “a real triumph…maybe confirmation of a major band” (Benzine) and a “spontaneous enthusiasm with a feeling of freshness” (Revue Pop Moderne).