Amyl & The Sniffers Release Sophomore LP 'Comfort To Me' Today via ATO/Rough Trade

AMYL & THE SNIFFERS RELEASE SOPHOMORE ALBUM COMFORT TO ME OUT NOW VIA ATO RECORDS / ROUGH TRADE

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"Amyl & the Sniffers sound like Blondie deciding they’d be better off as a dirtbag bar band who dabbled in hardcore. It’s a combination that results in some glorious noise." – Rolling Stone "They left audiences slack-jawed." - The New Yorker   “Amyl and The Sniffers are THE MOST exciting live band on the planet right now.” - NME “Pure, uncut rock’n’roll fun.” – Pitchfork "Front person Amy Taylor sports a mullet and performs with a dangerous cheek — she has to be seen to be believed. On the record, she’s as effective as grabbing your attention.” - New York Magazine "Firebrand vocalist Amy Taylor leads this crew of housemates-turned-garage outfit, whose chaotic live shows and one-two punch recordings have earned them a bad reputation of the very best kind." -The Los Angeles Times ​​“‘Guided By Angels’ is a strung-out masterpiece.” – The FADER   “An amped-up tune that recalls riot grrrl greats.” – Consequence   “This tweaked-out paean of self-belief is an unbelievable thrill. The video for the song is even better — a gobsmacking showcase of lead singer Amy Taylor's boundless charisma.” - PAPER   “[Taylor] explores the very fabric of the universe—the energy that connects the worldly with whatever lies beyond, and compels us to come together with our fellow human beings. She accomplishes all that over a galloping punk-rock track, with Romer’s thrumming bass, Wilson’s caveman-clubbed drums and Martens’ red-hot power chords bolstering Taylor’s ferocious, yet emotive vocal performance.” - Paste "they call their sound ‘pub punk’ and it’s completely raucous their shows, its total total chaos with Amy kind of presiding over the chaos, very happily, she’s such an incredible front woman.’’ - Annie Mac via BBC Radio 1’s Future Sounds  “exhilarating material” - Stereogum “Comfort to Me is a return to the riffs-and-snarls-to-the-front, hardcore-minded punk of 2019’s self-titled debut with subtle forays into post-punk and surf rock...all informed by the reclusive reality we underwent in 2020.” - FLOOD

Amyl & the Sniffers, the Melbourne, Australia rock band fronted by Amy Taylor, release their sophomore album Comfort To Me today via ATO Records/Rough Trade. Comfort To Me, which was co-produced by the band and Dan Luscombe, is the follow-up to Amyl & the Sniffers’ critically acclaimed 2019 self-titled debut album, which won Australia’s esteemed ARIA Award for Best Rock Album and saw the band tour their anarchic and ridiculously fun live show internationally for the past two years. With its lyrics largely written during the Australian Bushfire season, when The Sniffers were already wearing masks to protect themselves from smoke in the air, Comfort To Me came together in a 3-bedroom apartment where the four band members quarantined together during COVID-19 lockdown. The result is a less spontaneous and more darkly considered record that masterfully captures the essence of the band like never before. “This album is just us — raw self expression, defiant energy, unapologetic vulnerability,” says Taylor. “It was written by four self-taught musicians who are all just trying to get by and have a good time.” PURCHASE, DOWNLOAD & STREAM COMFORT TO ME NOW WATCH: “GUIDED BY ANGELS” | “SECURITY” | “HERTZ” On October 5th, Amyl and The Sniffers will premiere a filmed performance of Comfort to Me, played in full, in one take, on a slab of concrete in a suburban wasteland somewhere in Melbourne, Australia. Tickets for the livestream are available now HERE.

Tracklist 1. Guided by Angels 2. Freaks to the Front 3. Choices 4. Security 5. Hertz 6. No More Tears 7. Maggot 8. Capital 9. Don’t Fence Me In 10. Knifey 11. Don’t Need A Cunt (Like You To Love Me) 12. Laughing 13. Snakes The weight of the past two years is palpable on Comfort To Me. Taylor explains, “After the Bushfire season, and when the pandemic hit, our options were the same as everyone: go find a day job and work in intense conditions or sit at home and drown in introspection. I fell into the latter category. I had all this energy inside of me and nowhere to put it, because I couldn’t perform, and it had a hectic effect on my brain. Having to deal with a lot of authority during 2020 and realizing my lack of power made me feel both more self destructive and more self disciplined, more nihilistic and more depressed and more resentful, which ultimately fueled me with a kind of relentless motivation. I became a temporary monster. I partied more, but I also exercised heaps, read books and ate veggies. I was like an egg going into boiling water when this started, gooey and weak but with a hard surface. I came out even harder. I’m still soft on the inside, but in a different way. My brain evolved and warped and my way of thinking about the world completely changed.” Within that chaos, the band found comfort. Given the unexpected luxury of time on their hands in 2020, the band—rounded out by guitarist Dec Martens, bassist Gus Romer, and drummer Bryce Wilson—was able to cut songs they didn’t love, and refine the ones they did, with the added help of mixer Nick Launay (Nick Cave, IDLES, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and mastering by Bernie Grundman (Prince, Michael Jackson, Dr. Dre, OutKast). “The nihilistic, live in the moment, positivity and panel beater rock-meets-shed show punk was still there, but it was better,” says Taylor. And the result is an absolute triumph: an incredibly cathartic record that will slap you in the face, peer straight into your soul, and give you a second wind to keep going no matter how shitty things get.

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