Avery Lynch opens her heart again on EP ‘Glad We Met’

Everyone knows choosing to love again takes time. Avery Lynch falls in love against the backdrop of a gentle melody crafted in her room on her latest EP, Glad We Met, a project that begins with stages of hurt and pain and sprouts into a blossoming, hopeful new love. Deeply rooted in vulnerability and reflection, Lynch’s soft, expressive vocals, along with pensive piano, make the record feel warm and welcoming as she soon learns to open her heart to love again — this time, to her longtime boyfriend, Jordan.

Lynch has been writing the newest EP for about a year and a half, with the project itself coming together over six months to a year. She says that after re-recording some of her favorite songs from past works exactly as they were written for September 2024’s As Written, Vol. 2 EP, she posted the single, “Rain” — similarly dainty, raw keys with her soft, wispy vocals as she finds it difficult to let go of a past flame and move on. Due to the surprise of its massive success on TikTok, “we had to rush the rollout [of songs],” she explains.

On “Rain,” Lynch yearns for closure and dwells on how newer experiences and new people cannot replace him. The song, which blew up on TikTok, was a massive turning point and became one of her most viral TikTok tracks, after originally planning “the boys who don’t know what they want” to be the first single off Glad We Met.

“Some releases feel like they just disappear, but ‘Rain’ had real energy behind it,” Lynch tells me over Zoom while in LA. “That was huge for me, especially since the As Written project didn’t perform very well.”

As the rollout sped up quicker than Lynch anticipated, Glad We Met — named after the song “I’m Glad We Met,” was a personal project for both herself and her longtime boyfriend, serving as a diverse experience as she became more involved in production this time around, contributing to arrangement, instrumentation and overall sound.

“I wrote [the song] about how I met my boyfriend, how we broke up during COVID[-19] because of distance, and how we found our way back together,” she says. “He’s also my producer and engineer, so it felt really special to make a project that tells our story.”

While they have worked together before, Glad We Met is the first project her boyfriend has written songs for after primarily engineering and producing tracks. Described as “[her] favorite project [she’s] ever made,” Lynch says each song follows the beginning of the love story she’s been living for over five years now — some about heartbreak and moving on, others about falling in love all over again.

This new process allowed Lynch to write new sections during production, shaping a really authentic and honest sound that showcases raw, romantic vocals and worldbuilding, almost a wispy sound that flashes to and from a past life.

She rewrote parts and new sections late in the production process. “intruder” and “I’m Glad We Met” saw Lynch adding bridges or rewriting parts, emphasizing the “freedom to experiment like that” because of her comfort level with making music with her boyfriend. However, the idea of adding or reworking sections to songs deep into the production “was new for me, and it ended up elevating the songs,” she says.

The Glad We Met EP follows the order of the story between her and Jordan. The heartbreak and hurt begin the EP, while the love songs follow toward the end of the project. But she says “Sweetheart” was the only exception. While it did not explode on social media the way that “the boys who don’t know what they want” or “Rain” did, she was adamant about it being a single — and she explains that it has become a fan favorite track, as well as one of her personal favorites.

Over warm acoustic guitar strums and Lynch’s dreamlike melodies that send you into your own emotional reverie, the Glad We Met EP traces a journey from meeting and breaking up during COVID-19, to reuniting and building both a relationship and music career together through songs of heartbreak and growth. It offers an intimacy and catharsis that, interlaced with raw piano, feels warm and welcoming, inviting fans into just a little of their story.

“I’m excited for them to hear it. My fans already know Jordan, but they don’t know much about our relationship, since most of my songs are breakup songs,” Lynch says. “This project finally shares that side of me. It feels full circle — almost six years later, telling our story through music. I don’t get too specific with details in my lyrics, so it’s still relatable for listeners, but it feels really personal too.”