Two years after Myah Sage’s death on January 28th, 2023, burial etiquette released February 18th II—a four-track elegy tied to her birthday, woven from intimate post rock ambience, and screamo’s frayed threads.
“February 18th is significant as a date because it is my little sister Myah Sage’s birthday. She was my best friend in the whole world & we were each other’s biggest supporters.”
When she passed, the mis sueños split had just surfaced, met with support that felt hollow to them. “It felt unfair & perverse that I was able to continue with my dreams when she no longer could,” recalls Jaccob.
For three months, silence held them —until April 26th, when they wrestled “Sage I” onto tape, a demo too raw to touch until her 22nd birthday neared. That’s when february 18th emerged, recorded solo in a few days, released via oliverglenn’s tape raffle, every dollar sent to the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP)—a cause myah held close.
The second EP, February 18th II, dropped on February 18th, 2025, with Jaccob on guitar and vocals, Veta on vocals, Nate on bass and engineering, and Nick on drums.
It opens with the seven-minute “Sage II,” followed by “Water From The Same Source” (a Rachels cover), Radiohead’s “Videotape,” and the brief ache of “Sage I demo.”
The tracklist varies between platforms, so what you see on Bandcamp is different from the set on Spotify.
“If you’re listening to this, thank you for helping keep Myah’s memory alive,” the bandcamp notes read. “I think of this album not as a piece of art but as an extension of her caring & loving values.” Listeners answered back.
“A few weeks later, we started getting in-depth vulnerable messages from people who had recently lost someone close to them,” Hanley says.
“The common theme in these messages was that the album helped them feel understood when the rest of the world was waiting for them to move on & get back to normal.”
They’d trade scraps of memory—Myah’s warmth for theirs—or pass along a thought: “As time passes and after the darkest moments of your grief, we begin to take on new habits that let us feel closer to this person we miss instead of feeling farther away.” Mount Eerie’s A Crow Looked At Me steadied them once.
“That album held no metaphors & offered no wisdom or grand advice,” they say. “It simply stated the depth of the loss and held nothing back.”
This year, Burial Etiquette handed over $927 from the first EP’s royalties to CASP. “There will be another tape raffle released by Oliverglenn with additional tracks,” hanley adds.
“Side B is a mixtape of songs that Myah & I would listen to when we would go for long drives through the country. We plan to donate 100% of the royalties from both EPs annually.”
For them, it’s Myah’s echo made real: “I see the twin EPs as an extension of my sister’s caring & loving values that helped shape me into the person I am today. It’s a way to share a small part of what made her so special—to recontextualise her birthday into something hopeful.”
From Thunder Bay, Ontario, this non-binary screamo and emo outfit isn’t pausing.
“We have a lot of new material coming out this year,” hanley says. A split with Finland’s letterbombs is next—“They’re an incredible band & I have been good friends with Christopher for years”—then a singles collection with larry records in spring.
More follow: A split with Vs Self with self versed records; a four-way split with mis sueños son de tu adiós, Retrados de heroína, and Hummm; one with Eli’s Ladder, their singer’s shoegaze project, “really warm & upbeat”.
“A split with the band Capsule Of You. A split with our drummer’s band, behemoth the cat. Another with Widowdusk. There are a lot of splits in the works.”
Burial Etiquette doesn’t drape their grief in grand gestures; they let it breathe—in the hiss of a tape, the stretch of a chord, the shared silence of those who’ve lost someone too.
