Cupid Spellโs debut single, โLook Alike,โ is a dreamy, haunting slice of dark synthpop born from the collaboration between Josh Kreuzman (of Twice Dark) and Mandy Buffington. Written for Loverโs Eye Press: Issue 10, a tribute folio honoring David Lynch, the track delves into the surreal and unsettling emotional spaces that Lynchโs works, like Twin Peaks, often inhabit. Formed in Bloomington, Indiana, in the summer of 2025, Cupid Spell was conceived as a creative side project for the duo to explore the strange intersections of love, loss, and illusion, and โLook Alikeโ delivers exactly that, with style and subtle heartbreak.
The song opens on a shimmering soundscape, a soft hum of synths glowing like static on a broken TV screen. Guitars buzz faintly in the background, while the drums pulse in a slow, hypnotic rhythm, grounding the dreamlike haze. Joshโs voice drifts above it all. Itโs thick, emotive, and melancholy, yet curiously detached, as though narrating from somewhere between memory and reality. He delivers the essence of yearning through disconnection, that uncanny feeling of looking at someone who mirrors your pain but isnโt really you.
He sings of the existential confusion that is inflicted when identity is mistaken and affection is blurred. So the longing is more like looking for a person who doesnโt exist anymore, more than yearning for a lover itself. He has that eerie undertone, with the sense of someone falling in love with a ghost or a projection, mirroring the dualities in Twin Peaks.
By the time the final chorus dissolves into echoing synths, โLook Alikeโ leaves the listener suspended in limbo, aching, dazzled, and slightly unmoored. Cupid Spellโs world is about reflection in the dark. Listen to their latest song to find love and loss merging until theyโre indistinguishable.
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Review by: Naomi Joan