Released to coincide with a series of late Summer UK shows which kickstart with an appearance at this weekend’s Rebellion Festival, Yorkshire’s finest, Syteria, return with their third album ‘Syteriaworld’.

Boasting within their ranks, guitarist Jackie ‘Jax’ Chambers, of legendary UK rockers Girlschool, she lines up alongside Argentine siblings Julia and Pablo Calvo on vocals and drums respectively, with Steph Dawson on bass to deliver thirteen original songs and one cover tune (a sugary twist on the Ramones’ ‘Rockaway Beach’) that once heard will take a lifetime to get out of your head.

That’s because within ‘Syteriaworld’ the band have created some of the finest pop punk tunes I’ve heard since the heady days back at the start of the century when the likes of Avril Lavigne, Fall Out Boy and Paramore were all ruling the UK charts. Now, I bet anyone who’s watched the band’s last video (and first single from the album) ‘Monsters’ or is familiar with their previous two albums will probably be thinking “what the hell is this guy on about?” But you take one listen to album opener ‘Chasing Dreams’ and tell me I’m wrong. This is the kind of song that if dropped into a video game like Sonic the Hedgehog or Fortnite it would prove to be an immediate hit with a whole new demographic of potential fans discovering the joys of rock music through a whole new medium.

And it doesn’t stop with that tune either, the amazing ‘E.M.P.T.Y.’ sounds like a previously unreleased Garbage single with Butch Vig having finally turned up the guitars in the mix, whilst the pumping skank of ‘It Hit Me’ has more than a hint of Gwen Stefani/No Doubt about it.

Elsewhere, the second half of ‘Syteriaworld’ whilst perhaps edging more towards the metallic punch of the quartet’s past records with the likes of ‘Talk To Much’, ‘Nine To Nine’ and ‘Pause For Peace (Silent Minute)’, they all still possess a strong sense of melody, largely thanks to Julia’s excellent vocal delivery.

I’ll willingly admit that ‘Syteria World’ surprised the hell out of me, it’s a record packed full of hooks and has a feelgood factor about it that is more than welcome in 2023.

Go grab yourself a one-way ticket to ‘Syteriaworld’ ready for when it opens on 11^th August, because once you’re in you’ll never want to go home.

You can pre-order your copy here.

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Author: Johnny Hayward