The album's title song, GSG, refers to "green shy guy". When the child of Dou's friend said the three words to her out of the blue one day she was hit by their randomness and later wrote a song.
"I still have no idea why the child said 'green shy guy' to me. When I wrote the song it felt like role playing as well as reflecting upon myself. It seemed fun to take up this persona and jump back into writing music with it. It gave me some breathing space between the music and myself, which I liked.
The image of the "green shy guy" was brought to life by Alex Gamsu Jenkins, an illustrator and cartoonist from London, who has created a great looking visual identity and music video for the song. The music video follows a little green shy guy who embarks on a journey from being lonely, shy and fearful to being brave, confident and optimistic.
"GSG was the first one we wrote," says Dou, who wrote the lyrics herself and composed the songs with the Hong Kong musician Ernest Choi. "A lot of the times the significance of a song is unclear to me when I'm writing it, but I'm a firm believer of intuition, and usually the meaning will gradually reveal itself later on.
"The process of self-discovery along with the relationship you continuously have with the world outside and how that shifts as your perspective alters. Its layers of yourself you slowly pick apart as you break down wall beyond wall built within yourself."
Another song from the new album is Orange, which started with an image of a sunset, something Dou loves watching.
"When I'm looking at the sunset it's like all my wonderful feelings and how that tied into how I was feeling about the beautiful moment I was experiencing right then. How intangible and impermanent it is. The song feels like a montage of memories and feelings trying to express how I felt about someone."
