![]() We imagine her again digging amongst the storage units, comparing her life to the strangers she yearns to understand. The second half of the album has some of the best moments, like in “World’s Worst,” which opens with strings, and Vu’s voice echoes on itself. “My House” starts off the back half of the album after Diana Ross’s “ It’s My House.” The track builds around the most angsty guitar arrangement on the track, and Vu’s vocals plead to “make my house a home,” where the house collapses and falls apart around her. The song has a darkness that moves upward through the sounds of the guitar distorting. Vu contrasts the darkness of the reference with a pop track with self-deprecating lyrics that shine: “If you stay the night I’ll have a new face, someone with a bright eye nothing like me.” Another track, “Keeper,” was made while Vu was only listening to “ Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush. “Aubade” calls to Phillip Larken’s “ Aubade,” a look into the eyes of death. The lyrics do not do the work of moving the track either, with vague questions like “Do you believe in family?” Vu is attempting to prove something, but it is unclear what is being proven.Ī few of the tracks call to other pieces, and they all seem to shine. The guitar builds up toward some angst, but it doesn’t quite know where or why it is going where it goes. The title track, “Public Storage” feels a bit lost in its world. She stands alone in a dark storage unit, surrounded by a stranger’s life, and the door opens to blind her in the sun. “April Fool” opens with a piano that leads to Vu’s pleading vocals. The album spans through isolated piano, ripping guitar, bedroom pop and disco synth influences, grounded by Vu’s vocals. The inspiration for the album was the idea of the storage unit, “these public expressions of thought, feelings, baggage, experiences that accumulate every year and fill little units such as ‘albums.’” From the album, it doesn’t look as though Vu is taking a look through her family’s storage unit, but rather snooping around strangers’ units that have been left behind, attempting to create some sort of intimacy but often not quite reaching it. ![]() What would happen to all of the unused holiday decorations, the winter clothes in boxes, the family heirlooms that live in storage units at the end of the world? Hana Vu finds herself with this question on her latest release, Public Storage, released on Ghostly this month.
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