Bewitchingly drum-filled and beautifully composed, My Best Friend is a understated bop that wickedly showcases Alfie Templeman’s talents…
With striking drum beats to match its electro-inspired production, Alfie Templeman’s new song My Best Friend is so good; the beat is so consistent and infectious. The Billie Eilish-esque track has a creepy, haunting feel, which helps elevate its importance, given the song is about depression and sadness; this makes it pleasantly atmospheric.
It is good that the song’s subject is clear from the start. It is specific enough to hit home the same way Billie Eilish’s debut album When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? did to fans and is a particular aspect that professional music critics praised about the album. It is definitely a clever way of marketing the song but vague enough to reach the minds of young people.
This song, just like Eilish’s Copycat, I could hear being used in shows such as a reboot of The Wizards of Waverly Place, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Scooby Doo and just generally darker programmes and films.
It certainly makes for a Halloween hit. This is also a song that I imagine being remixed quite easily and sung on an Ocean Halloween night. The morbidity of it all flourishes nicely in the minds of the macabre.
This all follows his radio-friendly previous single, Happiness in Liquid Form, which happens to be the name of his upcoming EP slated for a summer release on 15th July via Chess Club Records. The morbidity of it all flourishes nicely in the minds of the macabre with its pianistic melody and I easily recommend as the exact horror anthem we can add onto our playlists for 2020.
Score: 6.5/10
By Zach Omitowoju
Featured Image Credit: Chess Club Records