Phoenix Indie Rockers Find Warmth In Uncertainty And Motion
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SUNTWIST began in a Phoenix dorm room, but Matchbox is already looking beyond it. Across five tracks, the band captures the strange elasticity of early adulthood, when routines disappear, friendships begin stretching across distance, and the idea of home becomes harder to pin down. Rather than treating that uncertainty as a crisis, the EP lets it flicker between nostalgia, burnout, exhilaration, and the reluctant understanding that change rarely waits for anyone to feel ready.
Logan Mullert’s vocals give the songs an unforced directness, while the guitars move between sun-warmed shimmer and sharper indie-rock edges. There are traces of the 2000s and 2010s guitar music that helped shape the band — The Strokes, Djo, Tame Impala, Flipturn, and Arcy Drive among them — but Matchbox is more interested in borrowing their sense of immediacy than recreating a particular era. The music feels distinctly tied to SUNTWIST’s own surroundings: desert heat, late drives, crowded rooms, and the particular melancholy of knowing a familiar chapter is already beginning to close.
The EP’s title turns that feeling into an image. One by one a match would go out, and we were left wondering when the last in the box would burn,
the band explains. It is a small metaphor for something larger: watching people leave, opportunities shift, and versions of yourself disappear without ceremony. Throughout Matchbox, those departures sit beside quieter questions about burnout, identity, and what remains once momentum slows.
Stay High (Chasing Ghosts)
opens with steady drums and retro-leaning guitar lines, settling into a relaxed stride while keeping memory close behind. Winded in the Moonlight
softens the frame, its breezier movement carrying the hazy relief of temporarily stepping outside whatever has been weighing you down. On Why Mind It,
the band turns inward, tracing exhaustion and self-questioning without letting the arrangement become static.
Then I Just Wanna Dance
breaks some of that tension apart. More immediate and carefree, it feels like the moment the EP stops analysing change and simply moves through it. That release makes the closing Man I Wanna Be
feel more exposed by comparison. Layered vocals and shimmering guitars surround a refrain about recognising a better version of yourself through someone else’s eyes: But in your eyes / I see the man I want to be / And he’s standing right in front of you.
That line gets close to what Matchbox is really documenting. SUNTWIST are not writing about adulthood as an arrival point. They are writing from the middle of it, where identity is still being assembled from friendships, departures, mistakes, and fleeting moments of certainty.
Recorded and produced by members of the band, Matchbox keeps that transitional feeling intact. It is an EP about watching the matches burn down one by one, then realising that what disappears can still leave enough light to see where you are going.
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