Amyl & The Sniffers are pleased to announce the release of their third album “Cartoon Darkness” which is released via Rough Trade Records on October 25^th, 2024. The album was recorded with producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles in early 2024. The album will be available on limited edition glow in the dark vinyl with alternate artwork. “Chewing Gum” launches as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record.

Amy Taylor: “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 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.”

Amy Taylor on Chewing Gum “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 band will be heading out on a UK / EURO tour in November and will be main support for Fontaines DC at Finsbury Park on July 5^th, 2025.

UK / EURO DATES BELOW 2024 / 2025

NOV 5^TH – DUBLIN – NATIONAL STADIUM

NOV 6^TH – GLASGOW – 02 ACADEMY

NOV 7^TH – NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE – NX SOLD OUT

NOV 9^TH – MANCHESTER – MANCHESTER ACADEMY SOLD OUT

NOV 10^TH – BIRMINGHAM 02 – ACADEMY

NOV 11^TH – BRISTOL – 02 ACADEMY SOLD OUT

NOV 13^TH – LONDON – ROUNDHOSE

NOV 14^TH – LONDON – ROUNDHOUSE SOLD OUT

NOV 15^TH – LONDON – ROUNDHOUSE SOLD OUT

NOV 17^TH – BRUSSELS – ANCIENNE BELGIQUE SOLD OUT

NOV 18^TH – UTRECHT – TIVOLIVREDENBERG SOLD OUT

NOV 19^TH – COLOGNE – CARLSWERK VICTORIA SOLD OUT

NOV 21^ST – COPENHAGEN – VEGA SOLD OUT

NOV 22^ND – HAMBURG – GROBE FREIHEIT 36 SOLD OUT

NOV 23rd – BERLIN – COLUMBIAHALLE SOLD OUT

NOV 25^TH – MUNICH – TONHALIE

NOV 26^TH – LAUSANNE – LES DOCKS

NOV 27^TH – PARIS – OLYMPIA

NOV 29^TH – ATHENS – FLOYD