Australian rock band Amyl & the Sniffers just set a release date for their third album, Cartoon Darkness, which will release via B2B Records / Virgin Music Group on Oct. 25. The latest single is "Chewing Gum," posted below.
“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 vocalist Amy Taylor, before adding, “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.”
The band will be on tour in Europe and the UK beginning in November.
UK / EURO DATES BELOW 2024 / 2025
NOV 5TH – DUBLIN – NATIONAL STADIUM
NOV 6TH – GLASGOW – 02 ACADEMY
NOV 7TH – NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE – NX SOLD OUT
NOV 9TH – MANCHESTER – MANCHESTER ACADEMY SOLD OUT
NOV 10TH – BIRMINGHAM 02 – ACADEMY
NOV 11TH – BRISTOL – 02 ACADEMY SOLD OUT
NOV 13TH – LONDON - ROUNDHOSE
NOV 14TH – LONDON - ROUNDHOUSE SOLD OUT
NOV 15TH – LONDON - ROUNDHOUSE SOLD OUT
NOV 17TH – BRUSSELS – ANCIENNE SOLD OUT
NOV 18TH – UTRECHT – TIVOLIVREDENBERG SOLD OUT
NOV 19TH – COLOGNE – CARLSWERK VICTORIA SOLD OUT
NOV 21ST – COPENHAGEN – VEGA SOLD OUT
NOV 22ND – HAMBURG – GROBE FREIHEIT 36 SOLD OUT
NOV 23RD – BERLIN – COLUMBIAHALLE SOLD OUT
NOV 25TH – MUNICH – TONHALIE
NOV 26TH – LAUSANNE – LES DOCKS
NOV 27TH – PARIS – OLYMPIA
NOV 29TH – ATHENS – FLOYD
JULY 5TH – LONDON – FINSBURY PARK SUPPORTING FONTAINES DC
ALBUM TRACK LISTING
- 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
- D0 IT DO IT
- GOING SOMEWHERE
- ME AND THE GIRLS
