Amyl & The Sniffers Return To Light Up Punk’s Shadow

As a primordial scream of a generation without filtersan explosion of primitive energy and a wild scream that makes its way through the rubble of the modern world, Amyl and the Sniffers are ready to come back with a new album to illuminate the shadow of punk.

Born in the scorching dust of Melbourne, the band featuring singer Amy Taylor together with the drummer Bryce Wilsonthe guitarist Declan Martens and the bass player Gus Romerhas been able to channel the urgency of punk into an unstoppable force in his first two albums, capable of tearing away every convention with sharp riffs and a rhythm that hammers like a runaway heart. As we could hear from their first works and see from their performances, the sound of these four guys almost thirty years old is an orchestrated chaos, where the voice of the frontwoman arrives scratchy and ferocious like a weapon, like a sliver of truth, sharp and rawwhich hits you straight in the stomach. Always with the intent to shock the listener and leave them breathlessAmyl and the Sniffers now announce their new and third album in the studio, “Cartoon Darkness“, coming out on October 25th via Rough Trade Records, three years after the previous “Comfort to Me”.

The disc was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) in early 2024 at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studioswho chose the Australian group as the opening act for their recent US concerts. Representing a headlong plunge into the uncertainty of the future, a childlike darkness that is both terrifying and nonexistent, “Cartoon darkness” has been described by Amy Taylor as a work that “talks about the climate crisis, war, artificial intelligence, politics and how people think they are helping by having a voice online when instead we are just feeding the data beast of Big Tech, our modern god.”

The musician added: “It’s about the fact that our generation is constantly being updated with information. .We look like adults, but we are children locked in a shell. We are all passively ingesting distractions that don’t even cause pleasure, sensation or joy, but only numbness.”

Along with the announcement of the album, the band has released the single “Chewing gum”, the second preview after “You shouldn’t be doing that“. About the new song, accompanied by a video with black and white images, Amy Taylor said: “The adversity of life is a desire never fulfilled. Having to wash the dishes but never being the one to eat the meal, so close but never close enough. Trying to celebrate the ignorance of youth despite being robbed, choosing ignorance, choosing to be stupid and choosing love, despite it all. Making bad decisions for love, for life, because it’s short (or is it long?). Surrender to joy, surrender to being a vision, in your power, because making decisions based on emotion rather than logic is liberating, and despite the hell outside, you come out unscathed, through the flames, burned but only superficially, not stopped, not hit, not human. Life is work, life is not freeyou never really work hard enough because there is no end goal, so all we can do is choose to fail.”

At the moment Amyl and the Sniffers, who will be on tour in Europe and England next November, they haven’t announced any dates in Italy to present the new album yet.

Here is the tracklist and cover of “Cartoon darkness”:

1. Jerkin’
2. Chewing Gum
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. You Shouldn’t Be Doing That
11. Do It Do It
12. Going Somewhere
13. Me And The Girls