You guys did that in 15 mins?

Thats the advantage with being with music students everyday. Wish i could have some jam sessions like these when i have a 15 min break :-). When i had a band, i would love to go into improvisation mode, or arrange some covers "on the go". Its a good way to find new ideas and inspitation.

I also liked to hear you in a more funky setting. It could indeed be funkier with narrower wovels and maintaing compression. And i think you can do it, i don't remember where, but i have heard you singing in this kind of tight mix elsewhere (but this mix shows up easily only when the voice is warmed up). Plus there is a lot of phrasing, it requires a good deal of energy, which you bring, even if the pitch could be more centered.

Owen,

I went on your Soundcloud and i was indeed talking about your last Glow snapshots. I can hear a connected sound which will let you with greater freedom in wovel choice and in the interpretation than the heady TVS kind of mix (although we could state its not really a mix but more pure head voice with twang).

I may be projecting my own vocal challenges but training mixed voice in the A4 area and on tight wovels like in your Glow song is a big challenge. At least it is for me, since i have to resist the urge to belt the notes out and using open wovels (if i want to make it sound like mixed voice).
I mailed Phil about feeling like being left with either heavy belts or a covered light mix (that was too "euh-ish" for my taste), and he showed me the way to shed up all the weigth i had on my belt to find a place where i feel like belting, but with the minimum of effort.

This kind of sls exercice makes you sound like a complete idiot for about fifteen minutes but you got the guarantee to sing like a bird for at least half an hour!

By the way, while listening to your Soundcloud, i noticed that even one year ago, you had already a robust chest voice up to G4. I also hear a full chested A4 (On Carved upon a wall, at 3.20). And as you got a beefy head voice, it is going to blend very nicely once you will be able to stabilize your mixed voice.

The "heady mix" you are doing above Ab 4 has a quality on its own but is definitely restricted in use. Honestly, i don't think you could do much more than what you achieved in your songs. It can be polished, but i think you sound close to what someone can do by using this way of singing. In your top head range, you sometimes sound close to what TVS Advanced students are doing (notice that when this way of singing is featured, how singing full phrases is avoided at all costs and also how high in the range you have to sing to maintain a chesty illusion). Whennever you want to sing between Ab4 and C5 and have to deal with narrow wovels and a lot of energic consonants and phrasing, the unblended quality shows up and its no longer viable.

All that to say that what you do in the Glow cover is defs what you need to lean on.