Amyl and the Sniffers Share Video for Latest Single ‘Big Dreams’
The charming single is taken from Amyl and the Sniffers’ upcoming album, Cartoon Darkness.
Image by John Angus Stewart
The rollout for Amyl and the Sniffers’ forthcoming album Cartoon Darkness continues with the release of the band’s new single, ‘Big Dreams’.
Following the previously released bangers ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’ and ‘Chewing Gum’, the firey quartet’s latest is a slight change in direction. ‘Big Dreams’ is a melodic guitar barnburner with a country twang that descends into a torrent of noise before calmly fading into the ether.
“I am writing this before ‘Big Dreams’ comes out, and I am actually a bit nervous that it’s a single, because it’s so different from a lot of people’s expectations of us,” explains Amyl and the Sniffers singer Amy Taylor.
“This song was written because a lot of people in my life are struggling financially, and it’s really hard to make your dreams come true when you’re trying to get by day-to-day. But when I think of my friends doing what they love, and I see how good they are at it, I just know they’ve never been dull, they’ve always been lit, and there’s nothing that will break that or take it away from them.
“The video we shot in the desert, it was the first clip we shot for this album, and it was fun as hell.”
The John Angus Stewart-directed music video features the band riding on the back of old school motorcycles while riding through a desert landscape that conjures up images of the Mad Max films. Watch the music video for ‘Big Dreams’ below.
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As far as Cartoon Darkness goes, frontwoman Amy Taylor had this to say: “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 halfway 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.”
Cartoon Darkness arrives October 25 via Virgin Music Group. You can pre-save/pre-order the album here and check out the album artwork and tracklisting below.
Cartoon Darkness
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
