Premiere: Terra Lightfoot Shares New Video For 'The Only One Of Your Kind'

Premiere: Terra Lightfoot Shares New Video For 'The Only One Of Your Kind'

New LP Healing Power Out now

February 29, 2024

By Caleb Campbell

Photo by Lyle Bell

Canadian indie singer/songwriter Terra Lightfoot returned last year with her fifth full-length album, Healing Power, a record of bright, dynamic and naturalistic pop rock led by Lightfoot's sharp songwriting. Today, Lightfoot follows the record's release with an accompanying video for one of the album's highlights, “The Only One Of Your Kind,” which premieres on Under the Radar.

“The Only One Of Your Kind” is a sweet and sparkling tribute to close friends, carried by honeyed instrumentals and an irresistible hook. Lightfoot's vocals occupy a similar warmth and soulful presence to singer/songwriters like Lucy Dacus, but she also brings a great ear for melody to the fore, adorning shimmering guitars with handclaps and poised vocals. Meanwhile, the lyrics see Lightfoot running through vignettes of rosy memories, celebrating the friends who made them special: “You're the only one of your kind / Everybody laughed till everybody cried.” The results feel decidedly heartfelt, happy and shared, an element reflected in the accompanying video, which features fan-submitted photos capturing moments of shared friendship.

Lightfoot says of the track and video, “This is a song I wrote about friendship, which is one of the deepest kinds of love. I think everyone has a friend who is “one of a kind”. In the video, you'll see the band playing, but to get to the heart of the emotion, I put out a call for people to send in photos of their best friends. We ended up featuring all of these in the video… childhood friends, friends traveling the world or dressed up for Halloween or just laughing hysterically. Seeing all those photos in the collage at the end definitely captures how I felt when I wrote the song.”

Check out the song and video below. Healing Power it's out everywhere now.