Girl Like Me

Built atop a rubbery funk bassline that bounces between the speakers with barely contained glee, this track captures Chaz Bear at his most extroverted — a collaboration with Rex Orange County where the two vocalists trade verses with an easy, unhurried chemistry, their voices sitting just above the groove like conversation over coffee. The production from Outer Peace is immaculate: punchy, syncopated drums trading with clipped keyboard stabs, the whole arrangement bathed in a brightness that never tips into saccharine. Bear's delivery is characteristically understated, affectionate without melodrama, while Rex brings a slightly more plaintive quality to his lines, as if he can't quite believe his luck. Lyrically the song orbits a specific, crystallized infatuation — not obsessive but steady and illuminated, the kind of feeling that makes the ordinary world briefly shimmer. The subject is someone singular, impossible to replicate, and the song wears that recognition lightly. Horn-adjacent synth accents punctuating the chorus give it a faintly tropical bounce that plants the track firmly in the Outer Peace aesthetic — functional escapism delivered with genuine craft. It rewards warm evenings with the windows open, a glass of something cold nearby, the afternoon still lingering past when it should have ended.