Amyl and The Sniffers announce third album ‘Cartoon Darkness’

Having recently returned with the roaring single ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’, Aussie party-starters Amyl and The Sniffers have now confirmed details of their forthcoming third album, ‘Cartoon Darkness’. 

Due to hit shelves on 25th October via Rough Trade Records, the LP will act as a follow up to 2021’s ‘Comfort To Me’ and their 2019 self-titled debut, and was recorded in LA with producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) at Foo Fighters’ own 606 Studios.

“‘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,” frontwoman Amy Taylor has explained. “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.”

Continuing, she has said: “‘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.”

To mark the news, Amyl and The Sniffers have also dropped ‘Chewing Gum’ - a new track from the record that, in Amy’s words, epitomises the notion that “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.” Check out its video below.