Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties is not just a folk rock project, but also a character study conducted through music. The Wonder Years frontman Dan Campbell takes on the persona of Aaron West, a man who’s passing through the worst year of his life, and shows the listener how desperate and hopeless a man can be after losing everything he cares the most about.

The debut album, We Don’t Have Each Other, was released in July, 2014. It was followed by an EP, Bittersweet, in May, 2016. A single, “Orchard Park,” was released in October 2017, and his sophomore studio album Routine Maintenance was released in May, 2019.

The name Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties first appeared on a Hopeless Records sampler called Love is Hopeless in 2011 with a song called “Borrowed Chords”, although this generally isn’t considered canon.

They have released covers of two songs, The Mountain Goats' “Going to Georgia,” and The Weakerthans' “My Favourite Chords.”