Australian punk rock band Amyl And The Sniffers announces what will be his next work, “Cartoon Darkness”with a new single and video titled “Chewing Gum” that maintains the usual coordinates of his raw and direct music.
It’s been three years since their last album, and although we’ve only recently seen them live and they’ve released a few singles, there’s a desire for a new album from one of the most authentic punk rock bands today. And that album will be released on October 25 under the title “Cartoon Darkness” and brought to you by Rough Trade/Popstock!
To launch the news, the group has shared a new single entitled “Chewing Gum” that fits perfectly into the universe of the Australians. Fast, fresh and powerful, that’s the song and we’re sure that the other twelve that will make up the album will be as well. This third album is produced by Nick Launay and has been recorded at Foo Fighters’ 666 studios in Los Angeles. It will be available on digital platforms on October 25th and a limited edition glow-in-the-dark vinyl will also be on sale.
The video for “Chewing Gum” was directed by PHC Films and serves to share what is the main single from an album that will be completed with “Jerkin'”, “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” and “Me And The Girls”.
About the album, Amy Taylor herself comments that “it’s about the climate crisis, war, artificial intelligence, tiptoeing around the eggshells of politics and people who feel like they’re helping by having a voice online when we’re all just feeding the data beast of big tech, our modern god. It’s about the fact that our generation is spoon-fed information. We look like adults, but we’re children forever wrapped in a shell. We’re all passively absorbing distractions that don’t even cause pleasure, sensation or joy, they just cause numbness.”
And as for “Chewing Gum,” he declares that “The adversity of life is the desire never satisfied. To wash the dishes but never eat the food; to be around but never enough; or to try to celebrate the ignorance of youth even though it’s been stolen from us, so choosing ignorance, choosing to be foolish and choosing love, making bad choices, but what drives us is love, life, because life is short, or is it long? To surrender to joy, to surrender to being a vision in its own power, to making choices based on emotion rather than logic, to break free, and despite the external hell, to emerge unscathed through the flames, burned, unstoppable, unaffected, not human. Life is work, life is not free, we can never work hard enough because the end goal doesn’t exist, so all we can do is choose to be wrong.”
Next November, the band will begin a British and European tour as guests of DC Fountains
