Based in Gothenburg, SYNVILLA treats music and moving images as organs within the same unruly body. Heavy experimental rock, psychedelia, post-punk, and noise meet video art that is seductive, threatening, and frequently difficult to separate from the performance itself. Riffs drag and buckle, rhythms take crooked routes, and warped melodies push through distortion with a streak of playful menace.
During their live performances, SYNVILLA uses projected video as part of the stage presentation. While the band plays, footage of bodies and faces repeats, divides, and distorts across the screen, changing in step with the music. The projections give the audience a visual extension of the songs and place video art at the center of the concert experience.
SYNVILLA return with their latest single, Milky Breath, released through Beans on Toast Records. The song accompanies the announcement of the forthcoming GRINDMOTHER EP.
Thick drums give Milky Breath a heavy, deliberate gait. Psychedelic guitars slither around them in warped curves, while a buzzing low register carries the chest-deep vibration of a didgeridoo. Above this mass, the vocals quiver with witchy poise, stretching each phrase somewhere between a warning, an invitation, and an involuntary exhalation. The arrangement gains force through repetition as its parts return slightly damaged, bend out of shape, and eventually break into a physical act of release.
SYNVILLA describes the song as a surrender of conscious control, with social masks falling away as bodily impulse assumes command. The title intensifies that tension: milk suggests nourishment and breath signals life, yet the two words together feel thick, close, and almost claustrophobic. Resistance registers as muscle memory, the body shaking loose the instructions it has learned to obey.
Few smiles in recent memory have looked as hungry as the one occupying the Milky Breath video. A black-clad figure appears beneath two enormous horn-like forms while its mouth stretches into a crowded, impossible crescent, recalling the Mouth of Sauron in Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King. The eyes vanish, the head divides, and the grin remains fixed, as though it has taken possession of the person wearing it.
Victor Cornelius turns that premise into five and a half minutes of analog-video mutation. Solarized pinks, acidic orange, and cyan pass over faces and anatomical forms. The central figure is duplicated into contact sheets, folded into bilateral symmetry, pressed behind mesh, and expanded into a featureless white oval. Banks of lidless eyes crowd the frame while faces swim beneath watery tracking errors, hands skitter across a doubled torso, and human figures collapse into stark silhouettes.
Throughout these transformations, the enormous grin functions as a gruesome visual refrain. It survives every attempt to erase the face around it, repeatedly returning with its wet rows of teeth intact. By the final passage, the video resembles a late-night television transmission seized by an intelligence that has only recently learned the mechanics of a human smile.
Watch the video for Milky Breath below:
With two albums behind them, SYNVILLA celebrated their latest release, Feberfoster, with a sold-out concert at Skeppet GBG. The collective has shared stages with Hällas, Skraeckoedlan, and MaidaVale, while appearing at festivals including Fuzztival, Muskelrock, and Sonic Ritual.
Milky Breath is out now through Beans on Toast Records. The forthcoming GRINDMOTHER EP will follow, with its release date to be announced.
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