Album review: Amyl And The Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness

‘You’re a dumb c**t / You’re an arsehole / Every time you talk you mumble, grumble / Need to wipe your mouth after you speak cos it’s an arsehole, bumhole / Dumb c**t.’ Well, good morning to you too, Amy Taylor. As opening lines to a magnum opus go, Jerkin’ is not exactly, ​‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’. But, delivered over a crunchily classic rock riff with Amy’s classic Wendy-O-Williams-does-Iggy-Pop sneer, it does offer a perfect distillation of where Amyl And The Sniffers find themselves on album number three. Amy puts the ​‘pro’ into ​‘profanity’ throughout, keeping the Sniffers’ punk rock credentials thrillingly intact. But all that effing-and-riffing can’t obscure the fact that this immense-sounding record – recorded at the Foo Fighte...

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