AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS

Comfort To Me (ROUGH TRADE)

It’d be doing Amy Taylor and her Oz rowdies a disservice to suggest they’d become more sophisticated, exactly: the second Sniffers album still sounded like a Kathleen Hanna/ Motörhead hybrid toughing it out on the Melbourne pub scene. But Comfort To Me was an evolution from 2019’s self-titled debut: road-hard chops; Taylor’s feminist perspective; even better tunes played with a skill that never diluted their punch. Standout track: Security