AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS ARE GOING ON A EUROPEAN TOUR. WITH THEM, THEY BRING THEIR LATEST ALBUM "CARTOON DARKNESS". ON JULY 8, THE BAND FROM AUSTRALIA WILL STOP AT X-TRA IN ZURICH.

Amy Taylor:
"Cartoon Darkness is about the climate crisis, war, AI, dancing precariously on the delicate stage of politics, and people feeling like they’re helping by voicing their opinions online, even though we’re all just feeding Big Tech’s data monster, our modern god. It’s about our generation being spoon-fed information. We look like adults, but we’re children trapped forever in a shell. We all passively consume distractions that don’t even bring pleasure, sensation, or joy, but only numbness."

"Cartoon Darkness dives headfirst into the unknown, into this looming sketch of the future that feels terrifying but doesn’t actually exist yet. A childlike darkness. I don’t want to meet the devil halfway and mourn what we have right now. The future is a cartoon, the future is dark, but it’s new. It’s just a joke. It’s fun."

Amy Taylor on chewing gum:
"The adversity of life is unfulfilled desire. Doing the dishes but never eating the food, so close, but it’s never enough, and trying to celebrate the ignorance of youth even though it’s been taken from you—so you choose ignorance, you choose to be dumb, and you choose love despite it all, making bad decisions for love, for life, because it’s short—or is it long? Giving in to joy, surrendering, being a vision of yourself on your own terms, because making decisions based on emotion instead of logic is freeing. And despite the external inferno, you walk through the flames unscathed, burned but only superficially, unhindered, untouched, inhuman. Life is work, life is not free; we can never work enough because there is no final goal, so we can only choose to be wrong."

The band will headline for Fontaines DC at Finsbury Park on July 5, 2025, and will play Zurich’s X-TRA on July 8.