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Amyl & The Sniffers announce first album in three years, Cartoon Darkness
Amyl & The Sniffers have announced the forthcoming release of their third album, Cartoon Darkness, and share lead single, "Chewing Gum".
“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. 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," says Amy Taylor.
“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.”
Of the single, she adds: "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? 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 follows recent single, “U Should Not Be Doing that”, and the 2021 album, Comfort to Me.
Tracklist:
- 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
Cartoon Darkness is released via Rough Trade Records on 25 October, and is available to pre-order now.
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