New album Cartoon Darkness starts with a vicious smackdown of critics – and things only get better from there.
Amyl and the Sniffers’ know their main weapon is the thrilling way their frontwoman skates and spits above the riffage.Amy Taylor is keen to show us her breasts. It’s her album cover, so you’d think that would be that. The Slits did it in 1979 for heaven’s sake. But this is 2024, so the artist’s intentions are censored for our protection. Offence is harder to give, and so much easier to take these days. Tough times for the punk at heart.
Self-definition is a big theme. “I will not be told what I control,” she roars in the meat grinder of. “I am sick of promising everyone that I am the same as others,” she rants later. Her naughty-girl meow is no less defiant in: “If I didn’t show up in something spicy/ The cold world would feel even more icy,” she tells the “snags at the party”.
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