STACK #203 Sep 2021

MUSIC FEATURE

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Amyl & the Sniffers, L-R: Amyl Taylor, Bryce Wilson, Gus Romer, Dec Martens

Comfort To Me by Amyl & the Sniffers is out Sept 10 via B2B Records.

INTERVIEW

Lassooing old and new influences from the paddocks of rock‘n‘roll, hardcore and punk, Amyl and the Sniffers‘ second album Comfort To Me busts the barriers completely, and finds the four-piece with both motivation and message honed to a pike. Words Zoë Radas AMY TAYLOR & DEC MARTENS AMYL & THE SNIFFERS

W hen you strip away all of life‘s decorations – money, possessions, other peoples‘ motivations, even your CV of achievements – the only thing you really have control over in the here-and-now is your energy, and where you choose to direct it. That

It‘s my currency I spend, protect, my energy, currency.“ “All I am is my energy and how I choose to use it,“ Amy Taylor attests. She‘s sitting in her kitchen for our Zoom call, having just flipped her wet hair out of a towel alongside a quick

tete-a-tete with Declan Martens – the band‘s guitarist, also on our call – about whether or not she remembers what a scratch track is. (“You should know what a scratch track is, Amy!“ he chides. “I don‘t!“ she insists.) “For example,“ Amy continues, “if I want to get better at something and I don‘t put much energy into it, then I‘m never going to get

If I have no energy, all I am is a pile of human in a bed

idea could be interpreted as the driving message behind Amyl and the Sniffer‘s new album Comfort To Me , made most manifest in its lead single Guided By Angels : “Energy, good energy, and bad energy I‘ve got plenty of energy

COMIN’ IN RED-HOT Comfort To Me comes in fire-engine red vinyl exclusive to JB Hi-Fi, and the story behind the choice is a classic affectionate stitch-up. “We went through a bunch of colours and options, and then were like, ‘That [red] one‘s cool!‘“ says Amy. “And our bassist Gus, his last name‘s Romer, and he‘s got red hair. So we were like, ‘Let‘s call it Romer Red!‘“

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