My Best Fiend

My Best Fiend

My Best Fiend is an indie rock group from Brooklyn, New York, in the United States. Their music is associated with indie, psychedelic rock and dream pop, and it uses atmospheric keyboards, guitars and lead vocals that sit under a strong reverb-heavy treatment.

Style and sound

The group’s songs move between hushed, folk-like verses and fuller rock choruses. Their arrangements include layered vocal harmonies contributed by friends and guest singers, alongside grittier guitars and dreamy keyboard parts. The overall effect is often described through a hazy, reverberant sound, with a modern variation on a Wall of Sound approach.

The opening track “Higher Palms” is singled out as a hallucinatory example of this style. Lead singer Frederick Coldwell writes lyrics that move between decadence and penitence, and between compulsion and confession, with characters shaped by long, difficult nights and their aftermath.

Release history

My Best Fiend makes its Warp Records debut with In Ghostlike Fading.