I try to lose myself when I’m creating, and that happens more easily in the late hours when everybody is asleep and my to-do list for the day has been put to rest. One little email or social media notification can pull me out of the flow, but at night I can turn my phone on airplane mode and pretend like I’m the only person alive.

I describe seeing things from a more clearheaded, spiritual and optimistic point of view. Everybody has moments where they feel secure and connected to the world, and Night Goggles captures that feeling for me.


Anything to get you in the flow and forget who you are is your best bet; for me it’s music. I also meditate and journal like a madman, that helps.


The main concept behind the video is simple and came quite easy: someone puts on night goggles and is transported to a new, colourful, dreamlike world. The directors, Wiiki Vicki and Robin Mahieux, did an amazing job of not only building this dreamworld but creating a stark contrast from the bleak, real life shots in the beginning.

I spotted a clip that Vicki had on her demo reel with animated dancers that looked like it would be a perfect match for Night Goggles, so we used that video as a jumping-off point. The dancing is rendered from a live dancer that was shot by Vicki in Vietnam. They pulled all of this together during the early Covid-19 times, so extra props on that.

For this answer, I turned to the directors of the video, Vicki & Robin: “The idea isn’t really coming from any specific reference, though we’re both big fans of visually striking sci-if worlds like the ones created by the artist Moebius. For the portal between the flower world and the desert world, we drew some inspiration from the shimmer barrier in the movie Annihilation. When working on the music video, we asked ourselves, where outside of Earth would we find happiness? We wanted to create a world where we could be running on massive fields, breathing fresh air, discovering new worlds endlessly, and echoing one of the big questions humanity faces: what’s next?" 


I was leaning towards animation from the start, but once the pandemic broke out, it became our only option. I’ve always wanted to try some kind of blend between live-action and animation, so I’m happy that Vicki was able to get that opening street shot. One of the reasons why I love animation so much is that absolutely anything is possible, and I’m naturally drawn to the more surreal stuff.

These releases are part of an album that’s coming out in the next couple months. I chose them as singles because they vary in mood and style, and each shows a different side of me. Lyrically, they tackle similar themes. All of my songs in fact feel like they’re about the same exact thing, I just can’t explain what that thing is.