Kina and clide’s latest collaboration, “Best of Me,” is a deeply felt song about love slipping through the cracks, as it manages the difficult task of matching tender vulnerability to an aching sense of finality.
This duet marks the first collaboration between Kina and clide, and they have an undeniable chemistry. “Best of Me” is haunting and heartbreakingly beautiful, with Kina’s signature atmospheric production and clide’s raw, soul-stirring vocals. The track will appear on Kina’s upcoming EP, “Everything is Blue…,” a project already made for an evocative tour based on this single alone.
At its heart, “Best of Me” describes that painful moment when love becomes a memory when you’re still holding on to someone who has already slipped through your fingers. The lyrics capture an awareness that a relationship’s damage, something that’s been unraveling, has been breaking you while still being tied to the past. It’s an instinct that hangs around like a phantom, and Kina and clide animate it with remarkable frankness.
The song captures production and emotion in a perfect storm. With the emotional yet trance-like soundscape that Kina is famous for, he builds an atmosphere that feels at once intimate and cinematic. The production has a heaviness, a yearning embedded in each note, elevating clide’s emotive delivery. His voice possesses that kind of pain that is real, raw, and so relatable.
Songwriters Claudio Maselli, Dean Maola, Emily Rose Persich, and Pasquale Renella have penned more than a breakup song, and they’ve created a musical manifestation of the ruins love leaves behind once the feeling changes. It’s that late-night thought you can’t shake, the lingering smell of someone who used to be there, the quiet realization that some things are all gone for good. Kina and clide immortalized a moment, and “Best of Me” will resonate for anyone who’s ever battled to move on.
