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* CassetteFuturism: [[RuleOfSymbolism For some reason]], the mansion Deanna is squatting in is filled with old CRT TVs hooked up to antennas (which are picking up analog broadcasts in standard definition), even though she's also seen having and using a modern smartphone. All of the programs being shown are from the past (the 1980s or earlier), including footage of an Apollo rocket launch being shown as though it were breaking news, and it seems to be a bit of a plot point that none of the TVs has a working remote and she has no way to control them other than turning them on or off (hence all of them constantly playing different channels).
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* ChangedForTheVideo: The music video for "Out of Reach" adds an acoustic intro not present on the album (where "Tourniquet" and "Out of Reach" are SiameseTwinSongs).
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* OldDarkHouse: The SurrealMusicVideo for "Out of Reach" shows Deanna apparently squatting in an abandoned mansion that's been stripped of its furniture, with the ironic dissonance of her sleeping on a mattress on the floor and eating cold cereal surrounded by opulent chandeliers and paintings.
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* ShaggyDogStory: The message the band members are passing around via InstantMessengerPigeon in "Trust Me" turns out to just be spelling out the word "[[ToiletHumor POOP]]".
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* DrivingSong: "Coming In Last" plays with LyricalDissonance, sounding like an exciting driving song (and with a music video showing Deanna driving around with her bandmates) but with lyrics about being stuck motionless in a traffic jam.
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* {{Motifs}}: ''Rhombithian'' repeatedly makes references to drowning (with the cover art a photo of a young girl holding her nose underwater), and ''Bless My Psyche'' has a motif of being on a road.
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* CouldntFindAPen: The music video for "Corn Dog Sonnet No. 7" is basically a LyricVideo showing the lyrics to the song written on objects around Deanna's house with mustard. It's also mostly a LiteralMusicVideo, with most of the shots either depicting the action described in the song or depicting Deanna literally playing the song.
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* TheDyingWalk: The SurrealMusicVideo for "Tourniquet" shows Deanna going on one of these after waking up in the hospital where they were unable to treat her mortal injury (consisting of having her heart literally ripped out).
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* ReptilianConspiracy: The SurrealMusicVideo for "Ceramic Tile" reveals that the rest of the family living with Deanna are apparently lizard people performing some kind of experiment on her.
* RewindGag: The "Ceramic Tile" music video ends with the camera reversing and bringing Deanna back to the bathroom floor she woke up on.
* RewindGag: The "Ceramic Tile" music video ends with the camera reversing and bringing Deanna back to the bathroom floor she woke up on.
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* AscendedFangirl: Deanna Belos grew up idolizing The Lawrence Arms and Creator/AlkalineTrio, and was able to play with both bands on tour and become friends with their members after the release of ''Rhombithian'', even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2l2jIKzUR4 recording a performance of her song "Shattering"]] with her hero Chris [=McCaughan=] -- a real CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming for someone who's been so open about her history of insecurity, anxiety and depression.
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* AscendedFangirl: Deanna Belos grew up idolizing The Lawrence Arms and Creator/AlkalineTrio, and was able to play with both bands on tour and become friends with their members after the release of ''Rhombithian'', even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2l2jIKzUR4 recording a performance of her song "Shattering"]] with her hero Chris [=McCaughan=] -- a real CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming for someone who's been so open about her history of insecurity, anxiety and depression.
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** The title of "Corn Dog Sonnet No. 7" is extremely tongue-in-cheek pretentiousness -- the song is not a sonnet and it's not the seventh of anything (it's the first track of the album).
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* AscendedFangirl: Deanna Belos grew up idolizing The Lawrence Arms and Creator/AlkalineTrio, and was able to play with both bands on tour and become friends with their members after the release of ''Rhombithian'', even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2l2jIKzUR4 recording a performance of her song "Shattering"]] with her hero Chris [=McCaughan=] -- a real CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming for someone who's been so open about her history of insecurity, anxiety and depression.
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* CompanionCube: "Ceramic Tile" is an ironic love song addressed to Deanna's bathroom floor, as the only companion who hasn't deserted her after last night's disastrous night of [[WhatDidIDoLastNight drunken partying]].
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* SiameseTwinSongs: "Tourniquet" ends on a long, piercing high note that segues directly into the intro of "Out of Reach".
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* SongStyleShift: "Tourniquet", the band's arguably most "progressive" or "experimental" track, which ends on a sudden shift into an upbeat, major-key outro that's purely an instrumental with no lyrics, as though the speaker was able to pull herself out of her depression in the end but can't put words to the process by which this happened. (The SurrealMusicVideo uses this section to depict Deanna [[FromASingleCell regenerating a new body]] from her [[BeatStillMyHeart still-beating heart]] where it was torn out and thrown in a storm drain.)
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* {{Malapropism}}: "Bottle Lightning Twice" contains an intentional one, describing the speaker's desire to "see the thunder, hear the strike" instead of vice versa.
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* LyricalColdOpen: "Corn Dog Sonnet No. 7", which is also a cold open for ''Rhombithian'' as a whole. "Trust Me" on ''Bless My Psyche'' plays with this, starting with Deanna giving a loud sigh of self-disgust before Adam's drumming plays her into the song.
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: "Gone for So Long" includes the line "Once AND for all, once AND for all".
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* LonelyAmongPeople: "Recluse in the Making" describes Deanna's feelings of continuing to feel isolated and depressed even after having become a "darling of the Chicago punk scene".
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* FolkPunk: The acoustic versions of Sincere Engineer's catalogue from before ''Rhombithian'' might qualify as this, particularly "Shattering". Interestingly, the acoustic version of "Trust Me" averts this, and is much more squarely in the IndieRock category (as a prelude to Deanna's transition to BedroomPop).
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* SingerSongwriter: Sincere Engineer started as Deanna Belos as a singer-songwriter solo act, although she tried to subvert this trope from the beginning by writing songs more interesting than the ThreeChordsAndTheTruth stereotype and bringing punk rock energy to her vocals even if she couldn't bring a full band. ''Rhombithian'' happened largely because so much of her music was already ready to be translated into real punk rock with a full band.
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* AlbumClosure: Both ''Rhombithian'' and ''Bless My Psyche'' end with a slow acoustic guitar ballad ("Ghosts in the Graveyard" and the TitleTrack "Bless My Psyche", respectively), although the contrast is sharper with ''Rhombithian'', which consists entirely of upbeat hard-rock songs before then, and which ends "Ghosts in the Graveyard" and the album as a whole by [[StudioChatter letting you actually hear Deanna set down her guitar and leave the studio]].
* AnimatedMusicVideo: The video for "Tourniquet" is an animation by Nolan J. Downs, the one for "Recluse in the Making" is a {{Machinima}} Deanna made herself on ''VideoGame/TheSims4'', and the one for "Library of Broken Bindings" is one she drew herself as extremely LimitedAnimation of doodles.
* CuteButCacophonic: A lot of people's reaction to Deanna's appearance vs. her singing voice.
* DrivenToSuicide: Suicidal depression is PlayedForLaughs as BlackComedy via LyricalDissonance with "Shattering" only to come back much more seriously as the topic of "Ghosts in the Graveyard".
* LyricalDissonance: The strongest example is "Shattering", which is a jaunty campfire-style anthem describing the singer's suicidal depression due to her feelings of worthlessness ("I'm gonna jump in Lake Michigan/And swim out as far as I can").
* MaleBandFemaleSinger: Three male musicians backing up one female singer/songwriter. When Deanna first started working with them she said she felt very intimidated as a younger woman in the punk scene working with three male veterans, but at this point most of her fans would say they should've been the ones feeling intimidated and/or honored.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Ceramic Tile" is a (bitterly ironic) ode to the ''aftereffects'' of intoxication.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: Not as extreme as some examples, but Deanna's speaking voice (which you can hear in the intro to "Ghosts in the Graveyard") is surprisingly high-pitched and bubbly compared to the voice she typically uses in lead vocals.
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* StudioChatter: "Ghosts in the Graveyard" has a very brief out-of-context snippet of Deanna laughing and saying "I hate this!" before going into the song. The song then ends with a long passage of [[LeaveTheCameraRunning leaving the mic on]] while Deanna sets down her guitar and walks out of the studio, letting the door slam behind her.
* SurrealMusicVideo: Several of the band's music videos veer wildly in this direction, especially "Ceramic Tile", "Tourniquet" and "Out of Reach".
* UnkemptBeauty: Unlike some influencers in the punk scene who make fashion and makeup part of their marketing, Deanna's "uniform" onstage and in videos is typically a plain pair of jeans and baggy black T-shirt with minimal makeup or hairstyling.
* SurrealMusicVideo: Several of the band's music videos veer wildly in this direction, especially "Ceramic Tile", "Tourniquet" and "Out of Reach".
* UnkemptBeauty: Unlike some influencers in the punk scene who make fashion and makeup part of their marketing, Deanna's "uniform" onstage and in videos is typically a plain pair of jeans and baggy black T-shirt with minimal makeup or hairstyling.
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** Deanna is also a high school math nerd, and the title of ''Rhombithian'' is SesquipedalianLoquaciousness for "rhombus-shaped". The band all got rhombus-shaped tattoos to celebrate the album's release.
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* {{Machinima}}: The music video of "Recluse in the Making" is a recreation of the day the song describes in ''VideoGame/TheSims4''.
* {{Nerd}}: Deanna has joked about how musicians in the punk scene are meant to have nothing but contempt for school and book smarts but she was actually an honor student in high school (who flamed out in college), and her first tattoos on her arm were nerdy references like a bacteriophage or an illustration of the golden ratio. Her song lyrics sometimes have GeniusBonus references for fellow nerds in the audience.
* {{Nerd}}: Deanna has joked about how musicians in the punk scene are meant to have nothing but contempt for school and book smarts but she was actually an honor student in high school (who flamed out in college), and her first tattoos on her arm were nerdy references like a bacteriophage or an illustration of the golden ratio. Her song lyrics sometimes have GeniusBonus references for fellow nerds in the audience.
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* NonIndicativeName: Belos has said the name "Sincere Engineer" is a totally random coinage taken from listening to an interview with Brendan Kelly of The Lawrence Arms where he referred to an audio engineer who worked on one of his records as a "very sincere engineer", which was such an inherently funny phrase she adopted it as her online handle. She has disclaimed any interpretation of the band name as referring to her lyrics' sincerity or to herself as some kind of musical engineer.
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* SopranoAndGravel: Hilariously, Deanna often does this with ''herself'', contrasting her raw punk vocals as a lead singer with more traditional female vocals dubbed in as backup. (Cf. "Hurricane of Misery" on ''Bless My Psyche''.)
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* SopranoAndGravel: Hilariously, Deanna often does this with ''herself'', contrasting her raw punk vocals as a lead singer with more traditional female vocals dubbed in as backup. (Cf. "Screw Up" on ''Rhombithian'' or "Hurricane of Misery" on ''Bless My Psyche''.)
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* TheAlcoholic: A very common trope in punk music, and Belos' vocals have been called out as a stellar example of the "drunk punk" aesthetic. The songs feature frequent SelfDeprecation about drinking too much, with "Ceramic Tile" a straight-up anthem about waking up hung over. Deanna has said she used to actually get hammered before every performance to try to quell her stage fright before giving it up to preserve her health, but still channels that uninhibited energy into her singing.
* BrilliantButLazy: "Overbite" tells the story of Deanna Belos being a typical gifted kid who found herself in over her head and rapidly running out of motivation in college, scuttling her plans at a highly-paid medical career. She's gone into more detail in interviews about how her undergrad years consisted of staying up till all hours of the night procrastinating on studying while writing songs, and much of the tracklist of ''Rhombithian'' comes out of this time in her life.
** Belos has also joked about this on a musical level, calling herself an untrained amateur (she was mostly self-taught at guitar from the age of eleven because she didn't have the patience to learn to read music or play classical pieces) compared to her "professional" bandmates.
** Belos has also joked about this on a musical level, calling herself an untrained amateur (she was mostly self-taught at guitar from the age of eleven because she didn't have the patience to learn to read music or play classical pieces) compared to her "professional" bandmates.
* CreatorInJoke: A number of song titles make reference to Belos' failed career plan to become a dentist -- her song from ''Rhombithian'' specifically about this part of her life is called "Overbite" (referring both to a flawed facial feature and the idea of "biting off more than you can chew"), and a later song from ''Bless My Psyche'', "Dry Socket", refers to the socket from a lost tooth that's healed so it's no longer bleeding or painful, as a metaphor for a breakup ("All my nerve endings are dead").
* HarshVocals: The most notable feature of the band to most fans -- Deanna's raw, harsh, throaty vocals are worthy of her heroes [[Music/AlkalineTrio Matt Skiba]] and Brendan Kelly, and are the main reason some people characterize the band as {{emo}} or "screamo" rather than straight PopPunk. Producer Matt Jordan said when he heard Deanna sing at The Fireside Bowl in Chicago he was so impressed he offered to work on a record with her on the spot. Belos' voice is a major contrast to how women in music -- even in the punk genre -- are usually expected to sound, and it's only in more recent releases (the acoustic version of "Trust Me", her new BedroomPop singles "Library of Broken Bindings" and "Bottle Lightning Twice") that she's begun using a mellower, sweeter voice as a lead vocalist.
* NervousWreck: The songs frequently joke about being one ("It's super nice out/But I'm too scared to leave my house/So I'll fall asleep on the couch") as a way of dealing with Deanna's RealLife anxiety disorder.
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* SelfDeprecation: The lyrics are loaded with it, from ironically over-the-top ("Corn Dog Sonnet #7") to achingly heartfelt and sincere ("Trust Me"). Belos is also extremely prone to this in interviews and on social media.
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* SelfDeprecation: The lyrics are loaded with it, from ironically over-the-top ("Corn Dog Sonnet #7") No. 7") to achingly heartfelt and sincere ("Trust Me"). Belos is also extremely prone to this in interviews and on social media.
* ShoutOut: The title of "Here's Your Two Dollars" is a reference to ''Film/BetterOffDead''.
* TheShutIn: The songs frequently refer to Belos as one, with "Corn Dog Sonnet No. 7" joking about it in a celebratory way and "Recluse in the Making" being a much more painful and PlayedStraight look at it. Belos is diagnosed with general anxiety disorder in RealLife and has talked about the difficulty this gives her socializing and making friends.
* SopranoAndGravel: Hilariously, Deanna often does this with ''herself'', contrasting her raw punk vocals as a lead singer with more traditional female vocals dubbed in as backup. (Cf. "Hurricane of Misery" on ''Bless My Psyche''.)
* ShoutOut: The title of "Here's Your Two Dollars" is a reference to ''Film/BetterOffDead''.
* TheShutIn: The songs frequently refer to Belos as one, with "Corn Dog Sonnet No. 7" joking about it in a celebratory way and "Recluse in the Making" being a much more painful and PlayedStraight look at it. Belos is diagnosed with general anxiety disorder in RealLife and has talked about the difficulty this gives her socializing and making friends.
* SopranoAndGravel: Hilariously, Deanna often does this with ''herself'', contrasting her raw punk vocals as a lead singer with more traditional female vocals dubbed in as backup. (Cf. "Hurricane of Misery" on ''Bless My Psyche''.)
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* SelfDeprecation: The lyrics are loaded with it, from ironically over-the-top ("Corn Dog Sonnet #7") to achingly heartfelt and sincere ("Trust Me").
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The speaker in most of Sincere Engineer's songs (WordOfGod an only slightly fictionalized Deanna Belos) seems to never actually get together with the nameless guy she's so hung up on, or if so it doesn't last long or end well. (Given that Deanna has mentioned being in a stable relationship with her boyfriend, presumably the happier parts of her dating history have just been left out of her music.)
* CoolLoser: The image Deanna projects in her song, although to what extent she's trying to actually make herself look "cool" varies greatly. The second LP's songs "Recluse In the Making", "Coming In Last" and "Dragged Across the Finish Line" explicitly say that despite her career success she still feels like this.
* IAmTheBand: "Sincere Engineer" started as Deanna Belos' personal screen name she used on Instagram and other social media sites, which she carried over into her one-woman acoustic guitar act. Typically she now credits her bandmates as co-creators with equal status in the band to hers, especially for the second album where the songwriting was a collaborative process, but she still tours as a solo act under the Sincere Engineer name on occasion.
* LifeEmbellished: Belos says her music is extremely autobiographical, saying with her usual SelfDeprecation she's "not creative enough" to do anything but put her life directly into her songs. Two of her songs in particular, however, talk extremely specifically about her life story -- "Overbite" from ''Rhombithian'' is about her struggles in college and decision not to follow her life plan of pursuing a career as a dentist, and "Recluse in the Making" from ''Bless My Psyche'' tells the story of a typical day sometime after ''Rhombithian'' was released where she went to a local show to try to shake off her post-work depressive mood, found that being welcomed and celebrated by the crowd didn't do anything to lift it, and ended up blurting out her secret crush on a friend to her cab driver on the way home.
* LifeEmbellished: Belos says her music is extremely autobiographical, saying with her usual SelfDeprecation she's "not creative enough" to do anything but put her life directly into her songs. Two of her songs in particular, however, talk extremely specifically about her life story -- "Overbite" from ''Rhombithian'' is about her struggles in college and decision not to follow her life plan of pursuing a career as a dentist, and "Recluse in the Making" from ''Bless My Psyche'' tells the story of a typical day sometime after ''Rhombithian'' was released where she went to a local show to try to shake off her post-work depressive mood, found that being welcomed and celebrated by the crowd didn't do anything to lift it, and ended up blurting out her secret crush on a friend to her cab driver on the way home.
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** Ironically, Deanna has also talked about being the opposite of a gatekeeping purist and unironically enjoying the easy-listening and "dad rock" songs that played when she worked in a dental office as a teen, expressing sincere appreciation for bands her fellow punk musicians dunk on like Music/TheEagles and Music/TheRedHotChiliPeppers. (Her [=YouTube=] channel shows the band happily covering poppy '80s and '90s songs like "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Music/TheEagles and "Losing a Whole Year" by Music/ThirdEyeBlind.) Hilariously, with "Library of Broken Bindings" and "Bottle Lightning Twice" she seems to be intentionally getting into the BedroomPop trend several years late while Gen Z influencers like Creator/WillowSmith and Creator/OliviaRodrigo are getting into pop punk.
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** Ironically, Deanna has also talked about being the opposite of a gatekeeping purist and unironically enjoying the easy-listening and "dad rock" songs that played when she worked in a dental office as a teen, expressing sincere appreciation for bands her fellow punk musicians dunk on like Creator/TheEagles and Creator/TheRedHotChiliPeppers. (Her [=YouTube=] channel shows the band happily covering poppy songs like "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Creator/TheEagles and "Losing a Whole Year" by Creator/ThirdEyeBlind.) Hilariously, with "Library of Broken Bindings" and "Bottle Lightning Twice" she seems to be intentionally getting into the BedroomPop trend several years late while Gen Z influencers like Creator/WillowSmith and Creator/OliviaRodrigo are getting into pop punk.
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* DiscoDan: Deanna has joked about growing up at the exact time the punk genre was at its lowest level of popularity among teenagers -- the late 2000s to early 2010s -- and therefore having no one to talk about her favorite music with in high school. (She credits her interest in the genre to being a {{tomboy}} who was obsessed with the ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'' series.) The pop-punk revival was just beginning when ''Rhombithian'' came out in 2017, and Sincere Engineer's star has been rising along with the genre's in general since then.
** Ironically, Deanna has also talked about being the opposite of a gatekeeping purist and unironically enjoying the easy-listening and "dad rock" songs that played when she worked in a dental office as a teen, expressing sincere appreciation for bands her fellow punk musicians dunk on like Creator/TheEagles and Creator/TheRedHotChiliPeppers. (Her [=YouTube=] channel shows the band happily covering poppy songs like "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Creator/TheEagles and "Losing a Whole Year" by Creator/ThirdEyeBlind.) Hilariously, with "Library of Broken Bindings" and "Bottle Lightning Twice" she seems to be intentionally getting into the BedroomPop trend several years late while Gen Z influencers like Creator/WillowSmith and Creator/OliviaRodrigo are getting into pop punk.
** Ironically, Deanna has also talked about being the opposite of a gatekeeping purist and unironically enjoying the easy-listening and "dad rock" songs that played when she worked in a dental office as a teen, expressing sincere appreciation for bands her fellow punk musicians dunk on like Creator/TheEagles and Creator/TheRedHotChiliPeppers. (Her [=YouTube=] channel shows the band happily covering poppy songs like "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Creator/TheEagles and "Losing a Whole Year" by Creator/ThirdEyeBlind.) Hilariously, with "Library of Broken Bindings" and "Bottle Lightning Twice" she seems to be intentionally getting into the BedroomPop trend several years late while Gen Z influencers like Creator/WillowSmith and Creator/OliviaRodrigo are getting into pop punk.
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* PopPunk: A signature example of the "pop-punk revival" of TheNewTens, although some would consider their sound to straddle pop punk and {{emo}}. Deanna Belos grew up a fan of Chicago punk acts like Music/TheLawrenceArms and Music/AlkalineTrio and wears her influences openly.
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* BedroomPop: Deanna has said she wanted to branch out from PopPunk and began experimenting with this genre during the pandemic, when she had a lot of free time to sit around with her computer making synthesized backing tracks. Her two new singles "Library of Broken Bindings" and "Bottle Lightning Twice" both feature far more traditional pop vocals than her usual punk rock HarshVocals, and have a much more prominent HipHop inspired backbeat.
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Sincere Engineer is both a solo act and full band fronted by Chicago native Deanna Belos. Belos began performing with her acoustic guitar in college in 2015, and after being discovered by Red Scare Industries founder Toby Jeg and given her big break opening for Brendan Kelly of Music/TheLawrenceArms. This led to her meeting producer Matt Jordan, who connected her with a full band to record her first album, ''Rhombithian'' (2017), followed by a long hiatus (including the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic) before the followup, ''Bless My Psyche'' (2021).
Although she still tours as a solo act, since the production of ''Rhombithian'' Sincere Engineer has consisted of a full band with Deanna Belos on vocals and rhythm guitar, Kyle Geib on lead guitar, Nick Arvanitis on bass and backup vocals, and Adam Beck on drums and vocals.
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!!Discography
* ''Sincere Engineer'' (EP) (2015)
* ''Rhombithian'' (2017)
* ''Sincere Engineer on Audiotree Live'' (2019)
* ''Bless My Psyche'' (2021)
* "Trust Me (acoustic)" (single) 2022
* "Library of Broken Bindings" (single) (2022)
* "Bottle Lightning Twice" (single) 2022
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Sincere Engineer is both a solo act and full band fronted by Chicago native Deanna Belos. Belos began performing with her acoustic guitar in college in 2015, and after being discovered by Red Scare Industries founder Toby Jeg and given her big break opening for Brendan Kelly of Music/TheLawrenceArms. This led to her meeting producer Matt Jordan, who connected her with a full band to record her first album, ''Rhombithian'' (2017), followed by a long hiatus (including the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic) before the followup, ''Bless My Psyche'' (2021).
Although she still tours as a solo act, since the production of ''Rhombithian'' Sincere Engineer has consisted of a full band with Deanna Belos on vocals and rhythm guitar, Kyle Geib on lead guitar, Nick Arvanitis on bass and backup vocals, and Adam Beck on drums and vocals.
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!!Discography
* ''Sincere Engineer'' (EP) (2015)
* ''Rhombithian'' (2017)
* ''Sincere Engineer on Audiotree Live'' (2019)
* ''Bless My Psyche'' (2021)
* "Trust Me (acoustic)" (single) 2022
* "Library of Broken Bindings" (single) (2022)
* "Bottle Lightning Twice" (single) 2022
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