Hana Vu releases new album Public Storage

Los Angeles-based artist and songwriter Hana Vu shares her new album Public Storage, her debut record on Ghostly International / Remote Control Records. Public Storage follows the release of the “ethereal” (NYLON) ‘Maker’, and the “quasi-darkgaze banger” (MTV) ‘Everybody’s Birthday’ and “satisfyingly fuzzy” (Stereogum) ‘Gutter’. Public Storage expands on the sounds of Vu’s early work, underscoring her strengths as a songwriter with a deeper sense of luster, sophistication, and urgency. She calls it “very invasive and intense sounding music,” refreshingly out of step with contemporary trends; this is music to...

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Hana Vu shares new single & video ‘Gutter

Los Angeles-based artist and songwriter Hana Vu shares ‘Gutter’, the latest single off of Public Storage, her debut record on Ghostly International, due out next Friday, November 5th. In conjunction, she shares a live performance of ‘Gutter’.  Following the “ethereal” (NYLON) ‘Maker’, and the “quasi-darkgaze banger” (MTV) ‘Everybody’s Birthday’, ‘Gutter’ is the heaviest song on the album. It thrives in grungy lowlight, with muscular guitar riffs striating above a bed of feedback, swelling alongside orchestral strings to a roaring finish. ‘Gutter’ sees Vu leaning into the alternative media she consumed...

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Hana Vu releases video for new single ‘Keeper’

Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu has released ‘Keeper’, the newest single from her upcoming album Public Storage, out November 5th on Ghostly International / Remote Control Records, following ‘Maker’ and ‘Everybody’s Birthday’. ‘Keeper’ is a pulsating new wave cut, replete with soaring dreamy synths and a cool-voiced narrator. The accompanying video, directed by Meagen Houang and choreographed by Jas Lin, sees Vu honing in on her artistic craft, both sonically and physically. It was shot in a single take on 16mm film by cinematographer Andrew Yuyi Truong and it’s a...

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Hana Vu releases ‘Everybody’s Birthday’ from upcoming album Public Storage

Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu announces Public Storage, her new album and debut for Ghostly International / Remote Control Records, out November 5th. In conjunction, she presents a new single, ‘Everybody’s Birthday,‘ the follow-up to ‘Maker,’ her “slick and assured” (Stereogum) first offering. The album is named after the public storage spaces the 21-year old Vu and her family would regularly use moving every few years. Vu sees the art of making...

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Hana Vu shares new single ‘Maker’

Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu makes her Ghostly International debut with ‘Maker‘, a commanding first glimpse into forthcoming material. ‘Maker‘ builds on the sound of the 21-year old’s previous work, 2019’s double EP Nicole Kidman / Anne Hathaway and 2018’s self-produced How Many Times Have You Driven By, with brooding, melodic pop driven by guitar and Vu’s distinctive contralto. For the first time, she welcomes a co-producer, Jackson Phillips (Day Wave), who helps Vu create an atmosphere with a deeper sense of luster, sophistication, and...

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Listen: Hana Vu – ‘Gypsy’ (Fleetwood Mac cover)

Eighteen year-old Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu released her EP How Many Times Have You Driven By back in June this year. It was a unique and compelling collection of pop-unfused indie-chill. Now, she shares a follow-up, a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s classic ‘Gypsy’. Listen below! Vu’s take on the Fleetwood Mac classic replaces the soft-rock radio sheen of the original with percussion heavy electronic grooves and synth tremolos – transporting Nicks...

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Out now: Hana Vu – How Many Times Have You Driven By

Eighteen year-old Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu today releases her debut EP How Many Times Have You Driven By. The EP is warm, sparse, smooth and whisper-intimate; showcasing Vu as an exciting and genre-straddling songwriter. Written and produced by Vu herself, and mastered by Clay Jones, How Many Times Have You Driven By displays an extraordinary maturity and originality. With rocking post-punk ballads such as ‘Shallow’, and super silky and infectious...

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Introducing – Hana Vu

Seventeen year-old Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu recently announced her self-produced debut EP How Many Times Have You Driven By, out June 29th. Today she shares the EP’s next single ‘Shallow’. See previous singles ‘Crying on the Subway’ + ‘Cool ft. Satchy’ below! ‘Shallow’ is a rocking departure from the gorgeous haze of her previous releases which retains Vu’s knack for effortless and heady melody. Hana Vu may still be in high...

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