Amyl & The Sniffers annoncerer første nye album i 3 år – Cartoon Darkness ude d. 25/10
I dag kan Amyl & The Sniffers annoncere udgivelsen af deres tredje album Cartoon Darkness, som udkommer på Rough Trade Records / Playground Music den 25. oktober 2024. Albummet er indspillet tidligere på året med producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) i Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios i Los Angeles. Sammen med dagens annoncering udgiver bandet deres nyeste single ’Chewing Gum’ med en ny video, der kan ses her.
Om albummet fortæller 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 om ‘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.”
ALBUM TRACK LISITNG
Jerkin’
Chewing Gum
Tiny Bikini
Big Dreams
It’s Mine
Motorbike Song
Doing In Me Head
Pigs
Bailing On Me
U Should Not Be Doing That
Do It Do It
Going Somewhere
Me And The Girls