There’s beauty in sonic unraveling. Sincerely Yours, a band born from the ashes of past projects, understands this well.
Its new EP, Box of Matches and a Fear of Light, dropped on July 1, and it doesn’t just land; it detonates. There are six songs in 16 minutes, each bleeding into the next like one prolonged scream into the void. According to the band, their musical expression comes from a place of honest feeling and relies on individual vulnerability to amplify the project’s sound.
“I try to be as ambitious as possible,” says Donovan Mingarelli, the band’s frontman and lyrical architect. “My goal with all of it is, I want my music heard everywhere, like every corner of the Earth, if it’s possible.”
The local quartet, consisting of Mingarelli (vocals), Randy Navarro (guitar), Edwyn Morales-Martinez (bass)—who goes by the stage name Krueger—and Michael Burger (drums/vocals), formed out of a shared love for early 2000s/2010s metalcore and post-hardcore. Think Touché Amoré rage spiraling into Poison the Well theatricality.
Opener “Suns Out” begins deceptively gentle, a melodic guitar line and Mingarelli’s soft tenor, before careening into “Guns Out,” which hits like a collapsing lung. Panic chords scream. Burger’s drums flail gloriously off the rails. It’s musical violence but orchestrated.
“Monster House” unleashes an atmospheric stomp of percussive fury, dense bass precision, melodic guitar interludes and a mix of abrasive screams and tuneful passages.
Burger, who leans into “crazier drum fills,” balances chaos with raw rhythm. Krueger samples sounds in his head, nodding to frequencies from his heroes and stitching them back together with his own warped precision.
The EP was recorded in just a week with producer Jonas Vece, who the band praises for his steady hand and keen ears. The result is a sharp, kinetic burst of screamo heart. Not polished but pure.
Following its 2024 debut, Acclimate to the Sounds of a Beating Heart, the band has been gigging as much as possible, jumping onto bills with local cohorts. Its next run, the 16-day Hot Boy Summer Tour, kicks off in July with Vegas duo Echoes of Amara.
If you’re lucky, you’ll catch the band mid-set bleeding, sweating, screaming—holding nothing back. Sincerely Yours, after all.
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