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Jan 02, 2025 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Becca Hamel

Over the past few years, Canadian duo Bestfriend have honed in on a style of nocturnal indie pop that feels equal parts emotive and captivating, lacing sleek, atmospheric production and glittering synth layers with a reflective undercurrent. They have already shared a pair of EPs, 2021’s places i’ve lived and 2023’s places i’ve left, alongside a string of accompanying singles. Late last year, bandmates Stacy Kim and Kaelan Geoffrey returned with their latest track, “WHY DO WE DO THIS?”, the first taste of a new project due out this spring. Today, they’re ringing in the new year with another new single, “YOU LOOK JUST LIKE ME,” premiering with Under the Radar.

Bestfriend’s music has always leaned into their existential side, tracing vignettes of midnight longing and nostalgic warmth. “YOU LOOK JUST LIKE ME” hits a similarly meditative note lyrically, but it also feels newly dazzling and anthemic. Kim’s vocals glide atop watery synth tones and skittering drums on the verses before ascending high with the chorus, easily turning her plaintive confessions into infectious sing-along moments.

Lyrically, the track reflects on the ties binding us with our loved ones, examining the subtle ways we mirror each other and the common pains we carry: “Running away from a change gets kind of lonely / Feeling your age twice a day / But when it’s half past two / Do I look just like you? / Looking for someone to blame for my brain / I know that you’ve been feeling the same, what a shame / And now it’s half past three / You look just like me.”

Bestfriend explains of the track, “As individuals, a lot of us are the people we spend our lives with. There are strings tied between ourselves and those people so fine we miss a great deal of them before we’re gone. We pick up pieces of each other as we go and forget they weren’t always ours. Sometimes we don’t even notice ourselves doing it; often it’s our biology doing it for us. In our smallest moments it’s so easy to feel like the only person in the world, when in reality we’re following very similar paths and experiences that our loved ones have. Of course, their moments of weakness are quiet as well, so your similarities are tough to spot. But when you shine a little light on yourselves you can see the strings shimmer.”

Check out the song and video below and pre-save the track here, out everywhere tomorrow.