Australian punk ne’er-do-wells Amyl & The Sniffers return with new album ‘Cartoon Darkness’.
The band recently breezed into London for a one-off show, revealing that they had been working on new material. True to their word, Amyl & The Sniffers have just shared plans for a new studio album, set to land this Autumn.
Out on October 25th via long-time home Rough Trade Records, ‘Cartoon Darkness’ was recorded at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles in early 2024, with producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the helm.
Available to pre-order now, the record dares to deal with some big themes. Singer Amy Taylor comments…
“Cartoon Darkness is about climate crisis, war, AI, tiptoeing on the eggshells of politics, and people feeling like they’re helping by having a voice online when we’re all just feeding the data beast of Big Tech, our modern-day god. It’s about the fact that our generation is spoon-fed information. We look like adults, but we’re children forever cocooned in a shell. We’re all passively gulping up distractions that don’t even cause pleasure, sensation or joy, they just cause numbness.”
“Cartoon Darkness is driving headfirst into the unknown, into this looming sketch of the future that feels terrible but doesn’t even exist yet. A childlike darkness. I don’t want to meet the devil half-way and mourn what we have right now. The future is cartoon, the prescription is dark, but it’s novelty. It’s just a joke. It’s fun.”
Ahead of this, Amyl & The Sniffers have shared all-new punk ripper ‘Chewing Gum’. Launched as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record, the track is a guitar-driven piledriver that dares to add new elements to their illicit elixir.
Amy Taylor comments…
Life is work, life is not free, we can never work enough because the end goal doesn’t exist, so all we can do is choose to be wrong.
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: John Angus Stewart
