Australian punk outfit Amyl & The Sniffers have officially announced their latest album Cartoon Darkness, set for release on October 25 via Rough Trade.

The LP was recorded with producer Nick Launay at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in L.A earlier this year, and is described by vocalist Amy Taylor as being record about "Climate crisis, war, AI, 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," she added." 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.”

To accompany the news of the record, the band have shared the album's lead single 'Chewing Gum'.

“The adversity of life is desire never fulfilled," said Taylor of the song.  "Doing the dishes cleaning, but never the one eating the meal, so close but it's never enough, and trying to celebrate the ignorance of youth despite it being robbed away, so choosing ignorance, choosing to be dumb and choosing love, despite everything, choosing bad decisions for love, for life, because it is short, or is it long?

"(...)Life is work, life is not free, we can never work enough because the end goal doesn't exist, so all we can do is choose to be wrong.”

Amyl & The Sniffers will also be kicking off their upcoming tour in Dublin, with a National Stadium show on November 5.