Hana Vu. Photo by Andrew Yuyi Truong.
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Hana Vu has revealed details of her sophomore album Romanticism. Dropping May 3 via Ghostly, the project is preceded by its lead single, “Care,” out today.
On the new song, Vu makes good use of her unusually powerful voice, pulling a melodic page out of the Lennon-McCartney songbook while soaking everything in the alt-grunge tone she does so well. “I wrote this song while staring out the window wondering if everyone considered things as much or more or less than I do,” she writes in a press statement. “Also ruminating on whether or not it mattered. Thoughts and feelings might be an eternally individual experience.”
The music video tells the story of Hana Vu’s disembodied head and how it got into that crazy predicament, but backward, from decomposition to the murder itself. Perhaps needless to say, the clip is quite graphic, but it’s unflinchingness is something to be admired, too. Watch below, but consider yourself warned.
Scroll further for Romanticism’s cover art — a very sick take on Gentileschi’s “Judith slaying Holofernes” — and tracklist.
Romanticism cover art and tracklist
1. Look Alive
2. Hammer
3. Alone
4. 22
5. Care
6. How it Goes
7. Dreams
8. Find Me Under Wilted Trees
9. Airplane
10. Play
11. I Draw a Heart
12. Love
