Svntax Error

Psychedelic post-rock music for the apocalypse. Based in Sydney, Australia and featuring theremin, two guitars, bass, drums and occasional vocals. Formerly Syntax Error (Australia).

Svntax Error’s music is created through the clashing of disparate influences in improvisation, leading to either harsh combustion or new and strange musical mutations. The music blurs spontaneity with composition, melody with noise, chaos with structure, light with shade.

Formed in 2016, Svntax Error have released two albums, 'Message' in 2019 and 'The Vanishing Existence’ in 2023. The latter seeing them tour Europe - performing at Belgium’s seminal Dunk! Festival alongside the cream of the world’s instrumental, post and experimental rock acts including Amenra, We Lost The Sea, MONO, God Is An Astronaut, Caspian, Oiseaux-Tempête and many others. They also toured the Australian East Coast with Japanese post rock legends MONO, playing The Triffid in Brisbane, Manning Bar in Sydney - with We Lost The Sea - and Max Watt’s in Melbourne, and supported Swiss band Hubris at The Factory in Sydney, and Howler in Melbourne.

2024 saw them join the Bird’s Robe 15th Birthday Tour, playing Max Watt’s in Melbourne and The Metro in Sydney, sharing the stages with COG, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead (US), Closure in Moscow, Crooked Fiddle Band, Meniscus, Solkyri, SEIMS and many more over the two dates.

Svntax Error comprises Ben Aylward (Swirl, Fabels, Bleeding Into Radio) on guitar and vocals, Ben Eadie (Rubber Necker, Fever Pitch) on drums, Matthew Syres (Helvetica Noise, Delays Have Dangerous Ends, Forenzics, Jekyll Switch) on Guitar and Theremin, and Peter Yates (Rubber Necker, Pretty Polly Mine) on Bass.

Their third album, ’Fires Of Home’ releases on the 3rd July, through Bird’s Robe Records.

‘Drawing influences from Mogwai, The Cure, Nick Cave, The Dirty Three and more, the Sydney-based band have earned a reputation for thrilling sonic explorations making use of hypnotic grooves, wailing theremins and of course, a post-rockers penchant for delay pedals.’
- Jacopo Vigezzi, Progressive Rock Journal

‘Brilliant, creative, beautifully atmospheric and dripping with talent.’
- Les Chatwin, Uncle Les Talks Music