Amyl And The Sniffers announce new album, Cartoon Darkness

Amyl And The Sniffers have just announced details of their third album – the follow-up to 2021’s Comfort To Me.

Entitled Cartoon Darkness, the Nick Launay-produced record is due out on October 25 via Rough Trade, and singer Amy Taylor reveals that it’s 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.”

To coincide with the announcement, the four-piece have also unleashed a new single and video, Chewing Gum.

“The adversity of life is desire never fulfilled,” says Amy of the meaning behind the track. “Doing the dishes cleaning, but never the one eating the meal, so close but it’s never enough, and trying to celebrate the ignorance of youth despite it being robbed away, so choosing ignorance, choosing to be dumb and choosing love, despite everything, choosing bad decisions for love, for life, because it is short, or is it long? Surrendering to joy, surrendering to being a vision, in your own power, because making decisions based on emotion rather than logic is liberating, and despite the external inferno, you walk away unscathed, through flames, burnt but only superficially, unstopped, unaffected, unhuman. 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 Chewing Gum below:

See the full Cartoon Darkness tracklist:

1. Jerkin’
2. Chewing Gum
3. Tiny Bikini
4. Big Dreams
5. It’s Mine
6. Motorbike Song
7. Doing In Me Head
8. Pigs
9. Bailing On Me
10. U Should Not Be Doing That
11. Do It Do It
12. Going Somewhere
13. Me And The Girls

And the album cover:

Plus, catch Amyl And The Sniffers at the following live dates:

November

5 Dublin National Stadium
6 Glasgow O2 Academy
7 Newcastle NX
9 Manchester Academy
10 Birmingham O2 Academy
11 Bristol O2 Academy
15 London Roundhouse
17 Brussels Ancienne Belgique
18 Utrecht Tivoli Vredenburg
19 Cologne Carlswerk Victoria
21 Copenhagen VEGA
22 Hamburg Große Freiheit 36
23 Berlin Columbiahalle
25 Munich Tonhalle
26 Lausanne Les Docks
27 Paris Olympia
29 Athens Floyd

And see them (along with Kneecap) supporting Fontaines D.C. at Finsbury Park next summer.

Get your tickets now.

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