AMYL & THE SNIFFERS - Amyl and The Sniffers LP Kraut

AMYL & THE SNIFFERS - Amyl and The Sniffers LP KrautThe debut album from Amyl and the Sniffers is the sound of 21st century Australia recorded in Sheffield with producer Ross Orton. It's primal and explosive with a love of glam, the 70's Sharpie movement and good time rock n roll backed with lyrics that somehow are simultaneously bleak and nihilistic, yet humorous and celebratory. The album is full of beefy riffs and stomping drums that rages and rolls and lives up to all the hype. It has attitude,

reverb-heavy territory

We had a very magical time playing the tunes”

Through his output both as an artist and through his eclectic Dekorder label

Recently remastered recordings from the early ‘90s (from the same sessions as their recent Against the Odds 2x7" on Unwucht) with Gary Glitter and Pere Ubu covered to a typically grouse effect the theatrics of the originals reduced to 2-minute primal Australian grunt

These call-and-response chants

There is just as much muscle as there is mysticism in ATANOR's soundworld

Robert and Anni used these pieces and the Himalayan peaks as a template for painting a soundwave soundscape around the piano compositions

starlit shuffle

with only three of these tracks seeing the light of day as part of the "Flex Your Head" compilation

Pennypacker: "Well

Sometimes he claimed to be the "black Bob Dylan" strumming an acoustic guitar and singing socially conscious urban folk

and each of those four tracks are aptly titled to convey the magnitude of their vision: chronologically "Storms of Black Fire