Amyl and the Sniffers are charging back into the scene with their first album since 2021’s blistering ‘Comfort to Me.’ Their third studio effort, ‘Cartoon Darkness,’ will drop on 25 October.
The Sniffers have just released a new single ‘Chewing Gum,’ off the upcoming album. The band worked with producer Nick Launay at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles, crafting their latest sonic assault. The new track, much like the punchy “U Should Not Be Doing That,” signals a gritty evolution in their sound—leaning harder into their rock roots and leaving no room for half measures.
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. – Amy Taylor
