Amyl & The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness

As we're currently in an era where the post-punk scene infinitely leans on the latter more than the former, with the gravel-throated anti-Tory doctrines of Idles, the Swedish comedown swagger of Viagra Boys, and closer to home, the pub-feed munching debauchery of The Chats all making for global success, another unhinged Aussie property taking full advantage of the machine usually designed to keep them from the airwaves is Amyl & The Sniffers. Building off of 2021's banging sophomore effort Comfort To Me with last year's snarling lambast at armchair music critics and defenders of "true punk" on 'U Should Not Be Doing That', the group relink with producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) for their fever pitch anticipated third full-length Cartoon Darkness. Recorded at Foo Fighters' 606 Studios in Los Angeles, the mission statement succinctly described by the real-life Amyl (Amy Taylor) reads as "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." If you're not already on the Sniffers shitlist, rest assured by the end of the year, you'd want to be.