Amyl and The Sniffers share X-rated video for latest single ‘Jerkin’

Amyl and The Sniffers have dropped an unapologetic, body positive new video for ‘Jerkin’, the final track to be released ahead of their eagerly-anticipated third album ‘Cartoon Darkness’ (out 25th October via Rough Trade Records). 

Brash, confident, and a highlight of the forthcoming LP, ‘Jerkin’ follows previous singles ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’, ‘Chewing Gum’, and ‘Big Dreams’, and also arrives in the wake of the band’s Alexandra Palace headline announcement. 

The new cut is accompanied by an explicit video directed by long-standing Sniffers collaborator John Angus Stewart (of PHC Films), who has said of the track’s visuals: “The level of offence that a vagina or penis can generate is absolutely bizarre. It’s the context we stamp onto our sex organs that makes them innately “offensive.” This is why we wanted to strip away the artifice and examine the body in an open, conversational way.”

Continuing, John has explained that “from concept to crewing to casting, we (the production) let the project evolve in the most natural way possible, allowing our subjects to dictate their level of input based on their comfort on the day. We just kept pulling things further and further back until we were left with just a white wall and the human body. I think we all walked away from the shoot with an innate need to be less prudish and give less of a shit.”