Exciting news as Amyl & The Sniffers fire back after three years with another blazing album that’s been frequenting LTW’s speakers recently and regularly. Have a listen to their latest single. You’ve heard nothing yet! Read on…
Released via Rough Trade Records on October 25th, 2024, Cartoon Darkness, the first new album from Amyl & The Sniffers in three years has been announced alongside lead single track, Chewing Gum. Listen to the single HERE.
The album was recorded with producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles in early 2024. The album will be available CD, black LP, indie Bittersweet Moondance Edition LP and also limited-edition glow-in-the-dark vinyl with alternate artwork.
Pre-order the album HERE.
”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” states Amy Taylor. ”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.”
”The adversity of life is desire never fulfilled. Doing the dishes cleaning, but never the one eating the meal, so close but it’s never enough, and trying to celebrate the ignorance of youth despite it being robbed away, so choosing ignorance, choosing to be dumb and choosing love, despite everything, choosing bad decisions for love, for life, because it is short, or is it long?” Amy Taylor ponders with typically succinct authority on Chewing Gum. ”Surrendering to joy, surrendering to being a vision, in your own power, because making decisions based on emotion rather than logic is liberating, and despite the external inferno, you walk away unscathed, through flames, burnt but only superficially, unstopped, unaffected, unhuman. 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.”
”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” she adds. ”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.”
Check out the video for Chewing Gum below –
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Cartoon Darkness Tracklisting –
Jerkin’
Chewing Gum
Tiny Bikini
Big Dreams
It’s Mine
Motorbike Song
Doing In Me Head
Pigs
Bailing On Me
U Should Not Be Doing That
Do It Do It
Going Somewhere
Me And The Girls
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