High-voltage Australian rock band Amyl & The Sniffers have announced details of their third album, Cartoon Darkness, to be released via Rough Trade Records on 25 October. They've also released a new single, "Chewing Gum". Listen below:

Cartoon Darkness was recorded earlier this year with producer/engineer Nick Launay at the Foo Fighters-owned 606 Studies in Los Angeles. Vocalist Amy Taylor describes the record as being “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.”

“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.”

On new single “Chewing Gum”, Taylor had this to say:

“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.”

The release of “Chewing Gum” follows May’s now-limited edition 7” release of album track “U Should Not Be Doing That” (b/w exclusive B-side “Facts”). 

Cartoon Darkness tracklist:

1. Jerkin’
2. Chewing Gum
3. Tiny Bikini
4. Big Dreams
5. It’s Mine
6. Motorbike Song
7. Doing In Me Head
8. Pigs
9. Bailing On Me
10. U Should Not Be Doing That
11. Do It Do It
12. Going Somewhere
13. Me And The Girls

Last week, the band wrapped a tour opening for Foo Fighters across North America. They'll head out on a headline tour of the UK and Europe in November, with most shows already sold out.

Full list of 2024 tour dates below:

11/05 Dublin, Ireland @ National Stadium
11/06 Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy
11/07 Newcastle, UK @ NX
11/09 Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy
11/10 Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy
11/11 Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy
11/13 London, UK @ Roundhouse
11/14 London, UK @ Roundhouse
11/15 London, UK @ Roundhouse
11/17 Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne
11/18 Utrecht, The Netherlands @ Tivoli Vredenberg
11/18 Cologne, Germany @ Carlswerk Victoria
11/21 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega
11/22 Hamburg, Germany @ Grosse Freiheit 36
11/23 Berlin, Germany @ Columbiahalle
11/25 Munich, Germany @ Tonhalle
11/26 Lausanne, France @ Les Docks
11/28 Paris, France @ L'Olympia
11/29 Athens, Greece @ Floyd

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