Amyl and the Sniffers – "Shake Ya" (2019)

There’s the park where we first made it

A memory that is worth saving

Amyl and the Sniffers was formed in 2016 by four Australian housemates.  Their first release was a four-song EP that they say was written and recorded in 12 hours. 

2 or 3 lines featured the group’s “Guided by Angels” on Groundhog Day of this year.  It is such a great record that I decided to check out some other Amyl and the Sniffers music.

“Shake Ya” sounds a lot like “Guided by Angels,” and the same is true of the other Amyl and the Sniffers tracks that I checked out.  I don’t have a problem with that.  (Do you have a problem with that?)

Amy Taylor

Something else I don’t have a problem with is the group’s lead singer, Amy Taylor, who once explained why the group named itself for the recreational drug amyl nitrite thusly:  “[Y]ou sniff [amyl nitrite], it lasts for 30 seconds and then you have a headache – and that's what we're like!”

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Click here to listen to “Shake Ya,” which was released in 2019 on the group’s eponymous debut album, which won the ARIA award for Best Rock Album that year.  (An ARIA award is like a Grammy, only it’s Australian.) 

Click here to buy “Shake Ya” from Amazon.