![]() Regrettably, the change in tempo and energy doesn’t last, and while it briefly returns for the standout tracks My House and Everybody’s Birthday, it seems like the polished consistency of Vu’s third album is overall a double-edged sword. “ On my word, kick me up from the gutter to the curb,” Vu drawls on Gutter, the sixth and central track of the album, which in itself kicks the album up a notch, too. Strong guitar and bass lines give a welcome fullness to a select few tracks- Public Storage, Aubade and Gutter in particular. The lyricism of Public Storage is the album’s greatest strength as if self-aware, the instrumentation is mostly stripped-back, allowing the words she sings, and the striking voice she sings them in, to take the centre-stage they deserve. “Can you make me anybody else?” she pleads on the final track, Maker-but as she spent the last eleven songs proving, she doesn’t need the help: she’s a force to be reckoned with as she is. Proving oneself and finding one’s place are the album’s most significant themes, whether she’s dreaming of a home as in Aubade (“ When I close my eyes / I have a new place”), running away from it as in Heaven (“ Heaven, heaven / Never going home, no”), or trying to make it as in My House ( “Oh, make my house a home / Or give me hands to hold”). “ Here’s my receipt, here’s all my records / I’ll show you everything that I have to prove,” Vu sings on the title track, Public Storage-and then spends the rest of the album doing just that. Bedroom pop has never sounded so soulful-and while the ‘bedroom’ part can hardly be used to describe the stellar production quality across the twelve tracks, it’s a perfect descriptor for just how personal this album is lyrically. Public Storage seems to veer away from the more upbeat, experimental undertones and grainy, lo-fi processing of the latter, though one thing that hasn’t changed is the sheer power of Vu’s low, contralto voice, which speaks-or sings-to a musical maturity beyond her years. Public Storage brings forward the 21-year-old’s signature sound from her two previous EPs, 2017’s How Many Times Have You Driven By and 2019’s Nicole Kidman / Anne Hathaway, though with a markedly more consistent sound across the album. It’s rare to see an artist so young with such a strong grasp on her personal style. Now the mouth is open, allowing us an intimate look into the human body-just as the album itself does sonically, giving us an unflinching portrait of Vu as both an artist and a person. The cover art of Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu’s newest album, Public Storage, follows the pattern of the three singles released prior to it- Maker, Keeper, and Everybody’s Birthday, which featured highly-saturated, gritty images of body parts, from an eye, to a hand, to a closed set of teeth. Her stellar signature sound is one thing she shows no signs of losing. The resulting Public Storage arrived on Ghostly International in November 2021.Hana Vu’s third album, Public Storage, is a powerful meditation on the self, change and loss. Working with a co-producer for first time, Vu recorded her full-length debut with Day Wave's Jackson Phillips, who also mixed and played on the album. She toured with Phantogram and Nilufer Yanya before following up with the self-produced double-EP Nicole Kidman/Anne Hathaway in October 2019. tour in support of indie pop duo Sales.įollowing the release of her debut EP, Vu graduated from high school, moved out of her childhood home, and passed on a college acceptance offer in order to devote her time to music. ![]() at the invitation of headliner Soccer Mommy that April, and she made her label debut in June 2018 with the EP How Many Times Have You Driven By. However, it was her video for a later track, "Crying on the Subway," that caught the attention of Fat Possum imprint Luminelle Recordings' co-founder Chris Cantalini in early 2018. Her 2016 album, Sensitive, included the song "Queen of High School," a collaboration with Willow Smith. The following year's Outtakes featured hazy, moody arrangements of various combinations of guitar, keyboards, drum machine, and multi-tracked vocals, though by August 2015's Nightlife she was recording full-band arrangements with live drums. ![]() Her first collection, Got Got Demos, appeared in 2014. She made her full-length debut with 2021's Public Storage, her first recording with a co-producer.īased in Los Angeles, Vu started writing songs as a preteen and began uploading home recordings to the web in her early teens. Emerging on music-sharing sites in 2014, she released a series of increasingly more fully arranged collections leading up to her label debut, the How Many Times Have You Driven By EP, in 2018. ![]() ![]() Hana Vu's distinctive brand of indie rock sets her deep, detached vocals in a mix of dreamy haze, soul, and jangle. ![]()
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