“Amyl and the Sniffers earn their punk icon stripes on the blistering Comfort to Me”
“Short, sharp bursts of punk with the glint of a bared fang, Amyl & The Sniffers’ earliest releases had one thing in common: their urgent, unrelenting pacing. Often recorded over the course of a single day (2016’s debut EP ‘Giddy Up’ was recorded in just 12 hours), they may have deliberately lacked refinement, but more than made up for this with raw, energetic punch. Combining the cartoonish, free”
“On their second album, the Australian quartet expands into a Colossus-sized version of itself. Everything feels bigger, heavier, and more meaningful.”
“Australia is always vaguely apocalyptic, but perhaps never more so than in 2020. In Melbourne, people were already wearing face masks to protect themselves from the smoke of a particularly bad bushfire season well before Covid ever came down. For a long time, it was best to stay inside. So Amyl and the Sniffers did. Their second album, Comfort To Me, is the result of the band’s time in isolation.”
