Preceded by two EPs, 8 Songs and 8 More, Roche released her debut album, Lucy in October 2010.

She then attended Oberlin College in Ohio, graduating in 2003 with a degree in creative writing.

[4] Roche initially chose to bypass the family career choice of music to teach elementary school in Durham, North Carolina and New York City for several years.

In 2015, Roche opened for her brother, Rufus, on his Australia tour, where he premiered a song about her, "Lucy's Blue".

On the tour, Roche shared a song from an album of "dark lullabies" on which she and her sister were working.