#Amyl and the Sniffers Announce New Album Comfort to Me, Share Video: Watch

Comfort to Me is the second full-length album from the Australian outfit, following the 2019 debut Amyl and the Sniffers. The group also released the three-track EP Live at The Croxton last spring. Of the new record, bandleader Amy Taylor said in press materials:

All four of us spent most of 2020 enclosed by pandemic authority in a 3-bedroom rental in our home city of Melbourne, Australia. We’re like a family: we love each other and feel nothing at the same time. We had just come off two years of touring, being stuck in a van together eight hours a day, and then we’re trapped together for months in this house with sick green walls. It sucked but it was also nice. We spent heaps of time in the backyard listening to music, thrashing around in shorts, eating hot chips. The boys had a hard time being away from the pub and their mates, but it meant we had a lot of time to work on this record. Most of the songs were really intuitive. Main thing, we just wanted it to be us.

Taylor added:

If you have to explain what this record is like, I reckon it’s like watching an episode of The Nanny but the setting is an Australian car show and the Nanny cares about social issues and she’s read a couple of books, and Mr Sheffield is drinking beer in the sun. It’s a Mitsubishi Lancer going slightly over the speed limit in a school zone. It’s realising how good it is to wear track pants in bed. It’s having someone who wants to cook you dinner when you’re really shattered. It’s me shadow-boxing on stage, covered in sweat, instead of sitting quietly in the corner.

Comfort to Me:

01 Guided by Angels
02 Freaks to the Front
03 Choices
04 Security
05 Hertz
06 No More Tears
07 Maggot
08 Capital
09 Don’t Fence Me In
10 Knifey
11 Don’t Need a Cunt (Like You to Love Me)
12 Laughing
13 Snakes