Amyl & The Sniffers have announced their third album ‘Cartoon Darkness’

Amyl & The Sniffers have announced their third album ‘Cartoon Darkness’.

The full-length – recorded with producer Nick Launay at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles – is set for release on 25th October 2024 via Rough Trade Records.

Amy Taylor, the band’s vocalist, explains the album’s themes: “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.”

She continues, “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 lead single ‘Chewing Gum’ arrives alongside the news. Taylor describes the track: “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.”

Amyl & The Sniffers will embark on a UK and European tour in November 2024, with several dates already sold out. They will also support Fontaines D.C. at Finsbury Park on 5th July 2025.

The tour dates are as follows:

NOVEMBER
5 National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland
6 O2 Academy, Glasgow, UK
7 NX, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK (SOLD OUT)
9 Manchester Academy, Manchester, UK (SOLD OUT)
10 O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK
11 O2 Academy, Bristol, UK (SOLD OUT)
13 Roundhouse, London, UK
14 Roundhouse, London, UK (SOLD OUT)
15 Roundhouse, London, UK (SOLD OUT)
17 Ancienne, Brussels, Belgium (SOLD OUT)
18 Tivolivredenberg, Utrecht, Netherlands (SOLD OUT)
19 Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne, Germany (SOLD OUT)
21 Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLD OUT)
22 Große Freiheit 36, Hamburg, Germany (SOLD OUT)
23 Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany (SOLD OUT)
25 Tonhalle, Munich, Germany
26 Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland
27 Olympia, Paris, France
29 Floyd, Athens, Greece

JULY 2025
5 Finsbury Park, London, UK (Supporting Fontaines D.C.)