Amyl and The Sniffers are back with a bang, announcing their highly anticipated new album, Cartoon Darkness, for release in October 2024. Alongside the album announcement, the band has dropped a high-energy video for their latest single, “Chewing Gum.”

The track, filled with the raw intensity and rebellious spirit that the band is known for, offers a thrilling preview of what fans can expect from their upcoming release. With its punchy riffs and electrifying visuals, “Chewing Gum” sets the stage for what promises to be another explosive chapter in Amyl and The Sniffers’ journey.

Lead singer, Amy Taylor, explains “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. [..] 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 halfway 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.”

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. D0 IT DO IT
12. GOING SOMEWHERE
13. ME AND THE GIRLS

Photo Credit: Madison Hedgecock