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Listen to Hot Action’s Touching Requiem to a Lost Friend

Zayd Thring of Pets With Pets returns with a moving synth pop ode to friendship.

Is it just me, or can life be a bit rough these days? Something bad always seems to lurk around the next corner, and that thing is made even more horrendous when it involves death. The world becomes a little more lightless every time someone's taken from us.

New track "Streetlight Rendezvous (Rapid Transit)" by Melbourne duo Hot Action is an honest portrayal of exactly that. Hot Action are Louis Roach and Zayd Thring (of Pets With Pets fame), the latter who wrote and produced their new song which features guest vocals by Haley Giaccio from Squish.

With its airy, gentle synths, "Streetlight Rendezvous (Rapid Transit)" doesn't feel morbid, but it doesn't feel glamorous or romanticised either. What it is is a modest tribute to both the strength and struggle of the loved ones Thring misses. At times, the track sinks slowly to a melancholy buzz, and at others it floats with tenderness and hope to make a song that feels, above all, real.

Listen to the track below.