Amyl & The Sniffers are pleased to announce the release of their third album “Cartoon Darkness”, released by Rough Trade Records on October 25th 2024.
The album was recorded in Los Angeles in early 2024 at Foo Fighters' 606 Studios with producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs).
Cartoon Darkness
Amy Taylor: “'Cartoon Darkness' It’s about the climate crisis, war, artificial intelligence, politics, and how people think they’re helping by having a voice online when in fact we’re just feeding the data beast of Big Tech, our modern god. It’s about our generation being constantly updated with information. We look like adults, but we’re children stuck in a shell. We’re all passively ingesting distractions that don’t even cause pleasure, sensation, or joy, but only numbness.”
“Cartoon Darkness” is driving headlong into the unknown, into this looming sketch of a future that seems terrible but doesn’t exist yet. A childish darkness. I don’t want to meet the devil halfway and regret what we have now. The future is a cartoon, the prediction is dark, but it’s new. It’s just a joke. It’s funny.”
Chewing Gum
Amy Taylor on 'Chewing Gum': “The adversity of life is a desire never fulfilled. Having to wash the dishes and never being the one to eat the meal, so close but never close enough. Trying to celebrate the ignorance of youth despite being robbed, choosing ignorance, choosing to be stupid and choosing love, despite it all. 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 power, because making decisions based on emotion rather than logic is liberating, and despite the hell outside, you come through unscathed, through the flames, burned but only superficially, unstopped, unstricken, nonhuman. Life is work, life is not free, you never really work enough because there is no end goal, so all we can do is choose to be wrong.”
The band will embark on a tour of Europe and the UK in November (with several sold out dates already, including the two in London) and will support Fontaines DC at their Finsbury Park date on July 5, 2025.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
