Australians Amyl & The Sniffers nailed their colours to the mast with their eponymous debut album a couple of years. Unreconstituted Second Wave Punk Rock. Raw, quite consciously lacking the remotest sophistication, the kind of thing that Sounds readers would very much have appreciated back in 1978.
Now they've returned with second album Comfort To Me and it's very much business as usual. Development is a relative term where a band like this are concerned as they're not really looking to develop their sound and their audience probably don't want them to either.
The Sniffers are hardly aping bands that were the absolute top of the game first time around so it's difficult to enthuse overly over this record. Anyhow it does what it says on the tin and lets fly a few riffs and howls that The Saints, The Scientists and Radio Birdman wouldn't have deemed shabby. Much of it sadly spills over into Angelic Upstarts territory. While this fulfils its objectives well enough for the most part it's far too predictable and doesn't really excite in the way that say the Civic album did earlier on this year. I'll give it 7.
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