Acclaimed indie singer-songwriter Vũ. made his name as a poet of V-pop by exploring the genre’s margins. Soaked in youthful nostalgia, his 2022 album Một Vạn Năm (One Thousand Years) is a bittersweet journey back in time that expands the scope of his writing with evocative flashes of memories and broken dreams. Scattered among Vũ.’s trademark lovelorn acoustic ballads and soft-spoken verses are breezy, brass-inflected bars by guest rapper Phúc Du and rippling, lusciously cinematic sonnets that shimmer with the sweet melancholy of relationships and summers long gone.
