But if you want to do more than record just yourself at home, solo, a campaign is probably necessary.

Here's a sampler from Hannah James' album, which was crowd funded. She plays paid gigs. She could doubtless have home-recorded an album on her own and it would probably have been good. But it wouldn't have been the album that she ended up making, which lots of people crowd funded, and which lost of people liked.
https://hannahsandersfolk.bandcamp.com/album/warning-bells