Heavy Glow是一张关于自我身份认知的作品，关于相对于他人眼中的你或他们期待你成为的人，还是选择接受真实的自己。在疫情期间，我挣扎过，并且经历了许多个人意义上的动荡起伏-我是一个音乐人，一个曾经对做音乐毫无灵感的音乐人。我试图接受妥协同时身为亚洲人和美国人的含义。我是个DJ，却也想要唱歌，在现场弹奏乐器。我感觉自己就像一个行走的矛盾体，一个双面骗子。“Heavy Glow”成为了一个隐喻，代表着你在深夜闪耀的那部分，却难以被他人真正看到。它感觉像是你肩上的一个重负，但最终定义了你究竟是谁。 　　这张作品听起来融合了我的过去和现在。它悄悄带我回到我作为一个歌手，创作人，和吉他手的初心，并将此镌刻进从那时起我就开始开发创作的闪着光的电子音乐。从歌词层面上，这也是我创作过的最为真诚和原始的音乐-我不再写那些别人想要听到的东西，而是去深入探索挖掘我真正经历过的那些所有好的，坏的，甚至丑陋面。 　　Heavy Glow is about identity.It’s about coming to terms with who you are compared to who everyone else sees you as or expects you to be.I struggled through the pandemic and went through a lot of personal upheaval-I was a musician who was uninspired to make music.I was trying to come to terms with what it meant to be both Asian and American.I was a DJ who wanted to sing and play instruments live.I felt like a walking contradiction,and an impostor to both sides.“Heavy Glow”became a metaphor for the part of you that shines through in the night time,and can be hard for other people to really see.It can feel like a huge weight on your shoulders,but ultimately defines who you are. 　　The sound of it was the merging of my past and my present.Tapping back into my roots as a singer,songwriter,and guitarist,and carving it into the shiny electronic production I had developed since.And lyrically it’s the most honest,raw music I’ve ever made-I stopped writing what I thought people wanted to hear,and dug into all the good,bad,and ugly that I was really going through.