In the eight years since Amyl and The Sniffers came together in Melbourne’s sticky pub-rock scene, they have become masters of balancing power and playfulness. With two critically acclaimed albums under their belt - 2019’s self-titled debut and 2021’s visceral ‘Comfort To Me’ - vocalist Amy Taylor, guitarist Declan Mehrtens, bassist Gus Romer and drummer Bryce Wilson have achieved something unique and remarkable.

‘Cartoon Darkness’, recorded with producer Nick Launay at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles, on the same desk that captured Nirvana’s Nevermind and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, is full of surprises. It stretches from classic punk to the glammy strut of recent single ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’ to the stormy balladry of ‘Big Dreams’ (which is a sonic gear shift worthy of the title).  

Cartoon Darkness is about climate crisis, war, AI, tip-toeing 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 head first 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.

Available as Indie Exclusive Blue Marble vinyl / Black vinyl & CD 

Tracklist:
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.   U Should Not Be Doing That
11.   Do It Do It
12.   Going Somewhere
13.   Me and The Girls