Amyl & The Sniffers’ new track ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’ is a big fuck you to their critics.

Have you sensed a big Amyl & The Sniffers-shaped hole in your life? Over the past couple of years their ARIA-winning album sophomore Comfort To Me has seen them reach a new level of national and international acclaim, winning over audiences throughout Europe and the US. Naturally, when you become a tall poppy, there’s always someone jealous douche waiting to chop you down – a sad rite of passage on the way to the top, but thankfully, the Melbourne band have turned into a bloody awesome new tune ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’.

“Lyrically they’re both pretty self-explanatory,” says Amy Taylor of the track. “‘U Should Not Be Doing That’ makes me laugh, but it’s also in a way poking fun at the shock that people still feel at a little bit of skimpy clothing, and the bitchy high school way that the music community still is (yes I’m talking to you random 40 year old metalheads sitting around a table doing lines and bitching about a 28 year old chick in a band for wearing shorts and “selling out”) but it mainly makes me laugh. It’s unconscious and meant nothing at the time of writing it but now I think it’s a comedic way of rubbing the dog’s nose in its own dog piss after it wee’d on your favourite rug or something.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCxgUPFVFkA

The tune comes with a bloody excellent video that features Amy and what appears to be the blokiest of blokes played actor Steven Ogg of Grand Theft Auto and Better Call Saul fame shaking their limbs across LA. It’s a pretty clear rendering of her detractors and their reluctant standoffish attitude towards her. Supreme work by director John Angus Stewart.

‘U Should Not be Doing That’ comes with a B-Side backed by B-side ‘Facts’ and will be released on B2B Records / Virgin Music Group limited edition 7. Head here to pre-order and dive into ‘Facts’ below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrWrL2HLWMU&list=OLAK5uy_lZZDxnAPdqIsH47OjhhNiNkU7hi2Ti-3A&index=2

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