Cartoon Darkness

2024 studio album by Amyl and the Sniffers
Cartoon Darkness
Studio album by
Released25 October 2024 (2024-10-25)
Studio606 West (Los Angeles)
Label
  • B2B
  • Virgin Music Group
ProducerNick Launay
Amyl and the Sniffers chronology
Comfort to Me
(2021)
Cartoon Darkness
(2024)
Singles from Cartoon Darkness
  1. "U Should Not Be Doing That"
    Released: 21 May 2024
  2. "Chewing Gum"
    Released: 23 August 2024[1]

Cartoon Darkness is the upcoming third studio album by Australian pub rock and punk band Amyl and the Sniffers. It will be released on 25 October 2024 through B2B Records / Virgin Music Group. The album was preceded by the singles "U Should Not Be Doing That" and "Chewing Gum".[2] It is the band's first studio album since 2021's Comfort to Me.

Background

Singer Amy Taylor said of the album,

Cartoon Darkness is about climate crisis, war, A.I., 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 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.[2]

Track listing

Cartoon Darkness track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Jerkin'" 
2."Chewing Gum"3:20
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"3:26
11."Do It Do It" 
12."Going Somewhere" 
13."Me and the Girls" 

References

  1. ^ "New Music Discoveries 23rd Aug: King Stingray, Thelma Plum, Mallrat, and more". The AU Review. 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Strauss, Matthew (21 August 2024). "Amyl and the Sniffers Announce Album, Share New "Chewing Gum" Video: Watch". Pitchfork. Retrieved 21 August 2024.