Amyl & The Sniffers are back and they’re not holding back. The Aussie punk band just announced their third album, Cartoon Darkness, hitting the shelves on 25th October 2024 via Rough Trade Records. Recorded with Nick Launay (who’s worked with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Yeah Yeah Yeahs) at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios, this album is set to be a wild one.
Amy Taylor, the band’s fiery frontwoman, explains that the album tackles some heavy stuff: “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. 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.”
The lead single, ‘Chewing Gum’, already dubbed BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record, gives us a taste of what’s to come. Amy sums it up like this: “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.”
And because an album drop wouldn’t be complete without a tour, the band has also lined up a bunch of UK and European dates this November. London’s Roundhouse sold out two shows so fast that they added a third. If you’ve ever seen them live, you know why—they’re pure, unfiltered rock ‘n’ roll.
So, if you’re into loud, brash, and brutally honest music, Cartoon Darkness is going to be right up your alley.
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- Amyl & The Sniffers
- Cartoon Darkness
- Chewing Gum
- European Tour
- new album
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