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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The Active Set have delivered something that sounds joyful on the surface but carries an emotional gut punch underneath. &#8220;Death Of A Friend&#8221; wraps its grief in bright, funky instrumentation and experimental bass lines that pull you straight into the band&#8217;s orbit before the weight of the lyrics fully lands. The song is unflinchingly about losing people too soon, the kind of recurring loss that accumulates and never quite makes sense no matter how many times it happens. There is a raw, desperate honesty running through it that feels less like a polished artistic statement and more like something that needed to be said out loud. If you have ever found yourself in that exhausting place of mourning friends who were taken far too early, this song will find you exactly where you are.</p>
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