Consumer Guide Album

Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness [ATO, 2024]
Having followed a debut Australian bizzers voted their vast island nation's 2019's Album of the Year with 2021's near-classic power-bratty Comfort to Me, Amy Taylor—the Sniffers being three men I truly hope she's not addressing in any of these songs—runs the gamut from "keep jerkin' on your squirter" to "I was in L.A. shaking my shit/While you were down in Melbourne saying 'Fuck that bitch'," and believe me, it goes on. Moment of triumph: "Me and the girls are drunk at the airport/Can you believe it, it's open bar." Welcome last words: "I know my worth, I'm not the worst you told me once I was/I cannot do this anymore, I gotta hit the buzz." B+