Damon McMahon’s Amen Dunes challenge is coming to an finish. He has launched a remaining album, Death Jokes II, at present, stripping again songs from latest album Death Jokes with producer Craig Silvey. Test it out beneath, by way of Sub Pop.
“That is the final chapter of the ultimate quantity,” McMahon stated in press supplies. “Goodbye, I’ve barely stated a phrase to you, nevertheless it’s all the time like that at events—we by no means actually see one another, we by no means say the issues we should always prefer to; actually it’s the identical in all places on this life. Let’s hope that after we are useless issues will likely be higher organized.”
McMahon based Amen Dunes in 2006, releasing an album of 8-track recordings, D.I.A., that set his instincts as a pop tunesmith to a cold, alienated manufacturing model borne of its creation in a cabin within the Catskills. His standing rose after signing to Sacred Bones, the goth-leaning Brooklyn label of which he turned a lodestar.
He launched a string of cult favorites for the label, beginning with Through Donkey Jaw earlier than 2014’s Love—a daydreamy indie-pop album that includes members of Iceage and Godspeed You! Black Emperor—and Freedom, the report that crystallized McMahon’s songwriting and elevated Amen Dunes past its origins as a reliquary of underground curios. He signed to Sub Pop and, this March, launched his four-years-in-the-making swan track, Demise Jokes, an album that expanded the Amen Dunes model to include the sounds of his beloved digital and hip-hop music. The remix report options further contributions from Panoram, Kwake Bass, Christoffer Berg, and Robbie Lee.
“Demise Jokes was about greater than I can summarize,” McMahon stated to Pitchfork. “Probably the most I can say is the songs have little to do with precise demise, and extra concerning the demise of your insides.”
