AMYL & THE SNIFFERS return with their long-awaited third album this Autumn, heralded by a brand new single and video.
'Chewing Gum' is the second single to be taken from the album Cartoon Darkness, which follows on from 2021's Comfort To Me. Produced at Foo Fighters' 606 Studios in LA by legendary British producer Nick Launay, whose credits include such seminal post-punk releases as PiL's Flowers Of Romance, Killing Joke's What's THIS For...! and The Birthday Party's Junkyard, the album is set for release on 25 October through Rough Trade.
“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," says Amy Taylor. "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 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 adversity of life is desire never fulfilled," she says of 'Chewing Gum'. "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.”
Download 'Chewing Gum' here.
Pre-order Cartoon Darkness here.
As previously announced, Amyl & The Sniffers have a string of mostly sold-out dates this Autumn, with a third show added at London's Roundhouse. They'll also be main support to Fontaines DC at their Finsbury Park show next July. Full dates are...
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 (w/Fontaines DC)