New Audio: Berlin’s light heads Share Breezy Pop Confection “Got Me LIke”

Berlin-based indie electro pop duo light heads — Erin Renfro (vocals) and Alexandre Haudiquet (guitar) — can trace their project’s origins to their meeting in Paris. Both members have backgrounds in commercial music production, but they see light heads as a way to eschew hard and fast rules and strictures of songwriting and production — and as a way for the duo to embrace nostalgia, follow their instincts and tap into pure serotonin-driven pop.

Back in 2020, they relocated to Berlin, where they began writing and recording their debut single “Yellow House,” which saw the duo quickly establishing a sound that draws from a wide-ranging array of influences including psychedelia, funk and dance music in a technicolor indie pop package.

Released earlier this year, “Got Me Like,” is a breezy pop confection built around shimmering synth oscillations, a supple bass line, squiggling Nile Rodgers-like funk guitar and Erin Renfro’s ethereal delivery paired with an incredibly catchy hook. Sonically, “Got Me Like” brings a slick synthesis of Stevie Nicks‘ “Stand Back,” ACES and others while being a contented sigh that can only come from stumbling into love.

The duo explain that the song was created on a hot summer day last year: Haudiquet was jamming away while Renfro was dancing on the bed and singing the first words that came out of her mind “You got me like ooh ooh . .” For the duo, the single was an adventure into letting a song exist as it arrived to them, rather than picking it apart and cover complicating things as classically trained musicians tend to do. “I started off with lyrics that were simply fun and it evolved into the story of a summer fling turned into lifelong love,” light heads’ Erin Renfro says.