Amyl And The Sniffers release “different” single, Big Dreams

Amyl And The Sniffers have released the latest peek at their forthcoming Cartoon Darkness album, Big Dreams.

It sees the Aussie punks taking a slower tack than usual, foregoing their trademark raucous rock’n’roll in favour of a softer vibe that brings to mind Hole. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one, especially with the accompanying video of them roaring through the desert on motorcycles. Even if the band themselves know it’s not business as normal…

“I am writing this before Big Dreams comes out, and I am actually a bit nervous that it’s a single, because it’s so different from a lot of people’s expectations of us,” says singer Amy Taylor. “This song was written because a lot of people in my life are struggling financially, and it’s really hard to make your dreams come true when you’re trying to get by day-to-day. But when I think of my friends doing what they love, and I see how good they are at it, I just know they’ve never been dull, they’ve always been lit, and there’s nothing that will break that or take it away from them.

“The video we shot in the desert, it was the first clip we shot for this album, and it was fun as hell.”

Cartoon Darkness will be released on October 25 via Rough Trade. Explaining the vibe of the album, Amy says it deals with “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.”

They’ll hit the road in the UK and Europe almost as soon as the album drops. Catch them at…

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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