Ahead of the release of their new album Cartoon Darkness this Friday, Amyl and the Sniffers have served up one more preview. ‘Jerkin’’ follows previous cuts ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’, ‘Chewing Gum’, and ‘Big Dreams’. The track arrives with a NSFW video made by John Angus Stewart, which is available to watch on the band’s website. You can watch a less explicit version of it via YouTube below.
“It’s good to express your anger when someone’s been pissing you off and it’s good to have humor in life, especially as a woman, when you’re meant to just passively say ‘everything’s good’ to keep everyone else comfortable,” Amy Taylor said in a statement. “The best part about this song is that a squirter can be anybody’s genitals. I wanted to write a song to big-up ‘the self’ while putting down the ‘other’ because sometimes, even if it’s just for a small window, that’s the best way to laugh something off and empower yourself. World’s pissing me off and breaking my heart more than ever right now, might as well poke it back. It’s pointless but it’s cathartic.