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Leave it to The Sophs, Los Angeles freshest export with a penchant for emotionally-charged chaos, to drop a track that feels like a therapy session inside a blender. “Death in the Family” crashes in like your most introspective friend at 3am: uninvited, deeply uncomfortable, and somehow exactly what you needed.

Opening with the oh-so-casual line “I need a death in the family / to turn my page”, the band tears through a fuzz-laced confession that’s part guilt-fantasy, part empathy-hack. Think Weezer’s Pinkerton having an existential spiral after binging BoJack Horseman.

Guitars snarl. Drums twitch. Ethan Ramon spirals like a man trying to outpace his own conscience, wielding irony and melodrama like a blunt instrument—and somehow, it works. There’s something almost theatrical about it all, like grief filtered through a distortion pedal and spat back as a nervous breakdown on stage.

Disturbing? Yep.

Catchy? Against all odds, absolutely.

Should you worry about how much you relate to it? …We’re not here to judge.

For fans of: self-sabotage, confessional alt-rock, or yelling “sorry” into a fan for reverb.

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i need a death in the family
to turn my page
i need them to understand
i have learned my place
cause what good’s atoning for sin
i’d be bleeding on the sharks
i need divine intervention
to wash away these scars
don’t take the things you think I
don’t take the things you think I have
just wait for god to take my brother, sister, mother, uncle, aunt
i need a death in the family
to shift the plot
i need some people to forget all their forget me nots
cause what good is showing your hand
when they’d have you cut it off
and what good’s an honest man
who’s accepted that he’s lost
don’t take the things you think I
don’t take the things you think I have
just wait for god to take my brother, sister, mother, uncle, aunt
cause all is
love war
and taxes
i’ve built my house
on stolen valor
sympathy and charm
but all your little men might set their sights on you
if you show up with a pitchfork to a funeral
Let me go

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