| Cartoon Darkness | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Amyl and the Sniffers |
| Cover: | Cartoondarkness.jpg |
| Studio: | 606 West (Los Angeles) |
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| Producer: | Nick Launay |
| Prev Title: | Comfort to Me |
| Prev Year: | 2021 |
Cartoon Darkness is the upcoming third studio album by Australian pub rock and punk band Amyl and the Sniffers. It will be released on 25 October 2024 through B2B Records / Virgin Music Group. The album was preceded by the singles "U Should Not Be Doing That" and "Chewing Gum".[1] It is the band's first studio album since 2021's Comfort to Me.
Singer Amy Taylor said of the album,
Cartoon Darkness is about climate crisis, war, A.I., 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.