“ The music you make is all derivative of the music you listen to, and I never gravitated toward any one type of music. Sonically, the eclectic, jumbled nature of it lent itself to the public storage metaphor.
I would collect all these different references all the time, and I never found one genre that I wanted to form my songwriting identity into. The music you make is all derivative of the music you listen to, and I never gravitated toward any one type of music. With all the projects I’ve released in the past couple of years, I would describe them as sonically very eclectic. I understand how the album’s titular public storage metaphor-the idea of items in storage units-might describe the structure of an album, but I’m curious how the metaphor impacted the music itself. We recently spoke with Vu about the extended metaphor underlying Public Storage, the desperation and impatience behind the record’s genesis, and the moment she realized that Phillips was the perfect co-producer. They do the same for the inscrutable yet clearly personal nature of Vu’s lyrics, which find the artist questioning notions of family, what we find in other people, and, ultimately, her place in the world. Vu and Phillips explore these new sonic frontiers at slower tempos than in Vu’s past, and these pared-back paces spotlight the delicate balance that Vu and Phillips strike between restraint and combustibility.
The explosive chorus of Public Storage ’s title track is a great example, and so is the balance that “Keeper” strikes between Vu’s more electronic past and rock-indebted present.
While working on the album, the two dug deeper into the rock underbelly of Vu’s previous highlights and emerged with a booming, guitar-driven sound. Though the label is often associated with solo electronic acts, Public Storage is Vu’s least electronic record to date, thanks partially to co-production-a first for the previously entirely self-produced Vu-from Jackson Phillips of indie-rock institution Day Wave. In many ways, the LP is indeed a new start, if not a forceful push of the reset button.įor starters, Public Storage is Vu’s first release for esteemed label Ghostly International. So to call Public Storage her debut album might be a bit disingenuous, but it does make a modicum of sense. Her 2019 double EP Nicole Kidman / Anne Hathaway squeezed 10 tracks into just under half an hour, certainly an album-length duration. How Many Times is often referred to as Vu’s debut EP, yet its 38-minute runtime is as long as the average LP. In summer 2018, after collaborating with Willow and earning Tegan and Sara’s endorsement, the 20-year-old Angeleno released How Many Times Have You Driven By on Luminelle Recordings. It’s not exactly a hot take to question an artist’s first album being described as their “debut” when they’ve already built a fanbase with several EPs, and Hana Vu ’s Public Storage is an especially apt example.
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