Depressing name for a track, right? Well it’s a pretty emotionally desolate song to be honest; any piece of music that finishes with the line ‘I don’t want to die’ is sure to be fairly hard-hitting.

This first track from North American duo Pacific Empire is a bleak yet beautiful piece of work from Spokane musician Cameron Gorman and Montreal’s Velvet Glacier, aka Rémi Boudrias-Dussault. Death Song is the first track produced by this collaboration, and sets a melancholic tone, keeping instrumental sections to an ambient minimum and relying upon the sharp vocals to guide the track. Mixing lo-fi recording methods with shoegaze inspired effects, it’s despairing honest and wholly endearing. Downbeat and depressing it may be, but boy is it magnificent.