Amyl and the Sniffers announce today that their debut album will be released on May 10th. Check out the first track from the album, ‘Monsoon Rock’, out on Rough Trade (UK/Europe), ATO/Flightless Records (North America) and Flightless Records (Australia & New Zealand).
“Monsoon Rock is just a song to rage to and celebrating good gigs / live music, we wrote it around the time of Gizzfest 2017 when it was pissing down with rain but everybody still got into it, just muddier and wetter and real feral. We ran out of time to make a video and it’s always fun making funny shit, if you don’t have a sense of humor and can’t laugh what’s the point of being alive?”
Amyl and the Sniffers are Amy Taylor (vocals), Gus Romer (bass) Bryce Wilson (drums) and Declan Martens (guitar). They formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2016 and wrote, self-recorded and released their debut EP, Giddy Up, all in a span of twelve hours.
Their second EP, Big Attractions, was released in February 2017 then re-released as a 12” double EP with Giddy Up, through Homeless Records in Australia and Damaged Goods in the UK. Both PBS FM and Triple R FM in Melbourne made the record ‘Album of the Week’ and the band went on the sell out multiple Australian headline shows. 2018 saw limited edition vinyl copies of Giddy Up/Big Attractions fly off the shelves, pushing Amyl and the Sniffers into the Top 40 on the UK Vinyl Charts.
The band made their international debut at The Great Escape festival in May followed by sold out shows in London, before flying out to the Los Angeles to join King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard on a 22-date tour of the United States. Return trips to both the UK and US followed later in the year, where the band played to packed houses and rave festival reviews.
Already signed to Flightless Records for Australia and New Zealand, the band capped off a monster year by signing with ATO Records for North America and Rough Trade Records for the rest of the world. They were also nominated as Best New Act at the Q Awards and won the $30,000 Levis Prize.
Amyl and the Sniffers will be playing the following shows: 1st April – The Bodega – Nottingham, UK 2nd April – Heaven – London, UK 3rd April – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds, UK 4th April – The Louisiana – Bristol, UK 6th April – The Deaf Institute – Manchester, UK 7th April – The Haunt – Brighton, UK 8th April – Botanique – Brussels, BELGIUM 10th April – Paradiso Noord – Amsterdam, HOLLAND 11th April – Molotow – Hamburg, GERMANY 12th April – Stengade – Copenhagen, DENMARK 13th April – Debaser – Stockholm, SWEDEN 15th April – Zukunft – Berlin, GERMANY 16th April – Strom – Munich, GERMANY 17th April – Bumann & Sohn – Cologne, GERMANY 20th April – Motel Mozaique – Rotterdam, HOLLAND 21th April – Paaspop Festival – Schijndel, HOLLAND
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