Los Angeles artist Hana Vu announced a new album, Romanticism, due out May 3 via Ghostly International. It’s the follow-up to her 2021 debut LP, Public Storage, and she co-produced it with Jackson Phillips. “I’m just trying to convey my perspective as boldly as possible,” she says. “To succinctly crystallize how it feels to be young, but also to be deeply sad.” She adds, “The nexus of this album is indulging in these sad feelings, indulging in the senses. It’s just not commonplace in society that people really can value the beauty of being so sad, of feeling grief and heartbreak.”
The first single is “Care;” Vu says, “I wrote this song while staring out the window wondering if everyone considered things as much or more or less than I do. Also ruminating on whether or not it mattered. Thoughts and feelings might be an eternally individual experience.” Maegan Houang directed the accompanying video, and you can watch it below.
HANA VU – ROMANTICISM 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
