about
Svntax Error are a four piece Sydney guitar band that might strike some as post-rock, others as psychedelic and still others as the last outpost of a darker kind of Prog. This all-of-the-above comes from each member bringing their own unique sensibility to the music.
Most of their pieces are born out of improvising and letting those disparate influences create friction against each other, which leads to either harsh combustion or new and strange mutations. The music blurs spontaneity with composition, melody with noise, chaos with structure, light with shade.
Svntax Error are always an immersive experience.
the band
ben aylward
GUITAR AND VOCALS
Ben Aylward has been a mainstay on the Sydney music scene for many years playing in the seminal band Swirl and his current project the Fabels. His use of rhythm and colour helps to define Svntax Error's hypnotic, driven sound.
matthew syres
GUITAR AND THEREMIN
Matthew Syres pushes the envelope of possible guitar sounds through the extensive use of effects and abstract playing styles, perfected through years of playing in experimental, industrial and avant-garde acts including current improvising quartet Forenzics. The resulting soundscapes and textures add greatly to Svntax Error's sonic palette, creating a truly unique and atmospheric sound.
peter yates
BASS
Peter Yates is a seasoned performer having played in many successful musical outfits in recent years.
Peter's playing style is both melodic and percussive and is the perfect bridge between Ben's driving guitar and Matthew's more atmospheric sounds. His creative bass lines are a combination of the driven and the atmospheric.
Ben eadie
DRUMS
Providing the solid backbeat for Svntax Error is Ben Eadie. Over his drumming career Ben has performed styles as diverse as blues, swamp rock, cow punk, metal, noise, Motown, hip hop, funk and more. Ben brings these influences into Svntax Error to ensure that the drums provide a solid, colourful backdrop to the bands already rhythmical, atmospheric canvas.
Video: Kelvin Waves Goodbye
CREATED BY MATTHEW SYRES
Broken Nightmares
video: Depth Charged
CREATED BY MATTHEW SYRES & BEN EADIE
CREATED BY MATTHEW SYRES
video: THE FOUR Distressed Waves Of Sleep
CREATED BY ABRAM POWELL
video: From Sea To Sky
CREATED BY DANIELLE AKAYAN AND ELLIE LOUIE
video: Esoteric Transmissions
FEATURED ON ABC’S RAGE - CREATED BY MICHAEL BLAKE
video: Time In Reverse
CREATED BY MATTHEW SYRES
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video: THe Unknown
FEATURED ON ABC’S RAGE - DIRECTED BY SHAHANE BEKARIAN
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video: UNDER THE ICE
CREATED BY MATTHEW SYRES
DRONE FOOTAGE BY MIRKO RUBALTELLI
The Vanishing Existence
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Blurring spontaneity with composition, melody with noise, chaos with structure, subtlety with bombast, light with shade, ‘The Vanishing Existence’ weaves its spell over 8 deeply felt and beautifully crafted tracks.
From the theremin fuelled instrumental psychedelic stomp of 'Kelvin Waves Goodbye', through the lyrically dark melancholy of ‘Broken Nightmares’, to the glitched-out cyberpunk space rock of the aptly named ’Relentless’, the album covers a lot of ground, yet hangs together as a single, epic journey into sound.
Available in 4 beautiful double vinyl versions, gatefold CD, and digital download from Bandcamp, and streaming most everywhere.
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A guitar and theremin fueled psychedelic post rock journey through the varied landscapes of the apocalyse.
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