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Bestfriend – “HEADSTART”

February 20, 2025

Holy shit, that synth! I seriously listened to the intro of “HEADSTART” like eight times – this is a new Miller record for willingly listening to the first 28 seconds of a track, so hats off to Stacy and Kaelan of Bestfriend, and their newest track.   We’ve covered the duo before here (thanks Nick!), and funnily enough, we both used the word “shit” in our first sentence. Shit in the traditional sense, this is not though! I’m one of those lucky people who experience frisson with music and it was honestly pretty much nonstop. This felt like my actual best friend decided to start a band but obsessed over a Postal Service record before doing so. You can feel the influence, but it’s not a knock off. Definitely my type of people though. Come play a show in Buffalo, we’d love to have you.   You can hear “HEADSTART”[...]

Bestfriend – “Anxious People”

February 8, 2023

Canadian Alt-Pop duo Bestfriend released their first single, “LEMON LIME,” (see our feature on it here) this past December, from their upcoming EP places I’ve left. We now get another taste of the upcoming release with “Anxious People,” a dreamy pop song that feels like a contemporary representation of our collective strained psyches. Danceable and distraught is the potent combination forming from poppy guitar strums mixing with swirling synths and fun drum machines while Stacy Kim’s vocals softly pour over the top of the softly constructed dream pop world. The fuzzy pop sounds will lift you up while lyrics that highlight the solitary and repetitive natures of modern life and the unease it creates in all of us will give the listener a cathartic release as you bob your head and sway your hips calling out “It all feels the same.” Here is Bestfriend talking about their new track: ‘Anxious[...]

Bestfriend – “LEMON LIME”

December 22, 2022

Canadian alt-pop duo Bestfriend “get their shit together” (their words, not ours) on their latest single, “LEMON LIME.” The partnership between singer/guitarist Stacy Kim and synthmaster/vocalist Kaelan Geoffrey seems to be a match made in heaven. With a plethora of forlorn lyrics delivered in Kim’s super-pleasant vocal style and Geoffrey’s simple-but-effective songwriting style, “LEMON LIME” comes together like a guiding light for all the zoomers and millennials who have lost their way. It isn’t all doom and gloom though, this clever duo has found a way to inject a springy quirkiness into their music – expect a driving bassline and some sunny ooh-ooh-oohs. Check out “LEMON LIME” on Spotify too. Bestfriend · LEMON LIME