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Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
With their swearing and flashing, Amy Taylor and co’s return might seem like business as usual – but new melodic depths and lyrical concerns reveal themselves
Opener Jerkin’ rages along for two minutes on a fabulously primitive one-chord riff, starts with the lyrics “You’re an arsehole”, and comes with a video featuring so many unclothed genitals – some of them being quite vigorously manipulated, as per the song’s title – that you can only see it on the band’s website after confirming you’re over 18. Do It Do It, meanwhile, chucks more bile in the direction of “another person saying I’m not doing it right”, but equally seems nervous about the pitfalls of mainstream success: “When you get to the mountaintop will you put all the snow up your nose?” And on Tiny Bikini, Taylor appears to be oddly conflicted about her onstage image, or at least concerned about it being misconstrued. Amyl and the Sniffers: Big Dreams – videoTiny Bikini sets a deliberately cartoonish baby-doll vocal to a fantastic take-the-rest-of-the-week-off riff and pummelling drums, the band’s trademark sound sharpened by veteran producer Nick Laughey.
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