News · 21 August 2024

Amyl and the Sniffers Announce Third Album, Share New Single ‘Chewing Gum’

Cartoon Darkness is the follow-up to 2021’s Comfort To Me and is set to arrive on October 25.

Amyl and the Sniffers have announced the release of their much anticipated third album, Cartoon Darkness. The Aussie rocker’s first studio album since 2021’s Comfort To Me is set for release on October 25 via B2B Records/Virgin Music Group.

Recorded by producer Nick Launay (Midnight Oil, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles, the album is preceded by the previously released single ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’ and new tune ‘Chewing Gum’.

Check out the John Angus Stewart-directed black and white music video for the pulsating ‘Chewing Gum’ below.

Speaking on the album, frontwoman Amy Taylor had this to say: “Cartoon Darkness is about climate crisis, war, A.I., 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.”

Cartoon Darkness arrives October 25 via B2B Records/Virgin Music Group. You can pre-order/pre-save your copy here and check out the album artwork and tracklist below.