Name: Freedom
Brand: Amen Dunes

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SBR195cd

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-03-30

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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616892561347

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Amen Dunes

Genre US

New Psyche & Psyche Rock

Label US

Sacred Bones Records

Amen Dunes is a US neo-psychedelic / indie rock band formed by singer-songwriter and musician Damon McMahon in 2006. Known for their unique blend of psychedelic sounds and indie rock influences, Amen Dunes has captivated audiences with their soulful lyrics and mesmerizing performances.

With a sound reminiscent of artists such as Tonstartssbandht, White Fence, and Woods, Amen Dunes has carved out their own niche in the music industry. Their music transports listeners to another realm, combining dreamy melodies with introspective lyrics that resonate deeply.

Having shared the stage with notable acts like Moon Duo, Dirty Beaches, and Kurt Vile, Amen Dunes has established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the indie rock scene. Their live performances are known for their raw energy and emotional intensity, leaving audiences craving more.

Amen Dunes returns with new album Freedom, available on forest green colored vinyl via Sacred Bones Records.

The themes are darker than on previous Amen Dunes albums, but it's a darkness sublimated through grooves. The music, as a response or even a solution to the darkness, is tough and joyous, rhythmic and danceable.It's a sound never heard before on an Amen Dunes record, but one that was always asking to emerge. Eleven songs span a range of emotions, from contraction to release and back again. 'Blue Rose' and 'Calling Paul the Suffering' are pure, ecstatic dance songs. 'Skipping School' and 'Miki Dora' are incantations of a mythical heroic maleness and its illusions. 'Freedom' and 'Believe' offer a street tough's future-gospel exhalation, and the funk-grime grit of 'L.A.' closes the album, projecting a musical hint of things to come.

With every record, Damon McMahon aka Amen Dunes has transformed, and Freedom is the project’s boldest leap yet. Enlisting a powerful set of collaborators that included Parker Kindred (Antony &amp; The Johnsons, Jeff Buckley) on drums, Chris Coady (Beach House) as producer, and Delicate Steve on guitars, Freedomwas recorded at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in NYC and at Sunset Sound in L.A. All told it took three years to make.On the surface, Freedom is a reflection on growing up, childhood friends who ended up in prison or worse, male identity, McMahon’s father, and his mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the beginning of recording. The characters that populate the musical world of Freedom are a colorful mix of reality and fantasy: father and mother, Amen Dunes, teenage glue addicts and Parisian drug dealers, ghosts above the plains, fallen surf heroes, vampires, thugs from Naples and thugs from Houston, the emperor of Rome, Jews, Jesus, Tashtego, Perseus, even McMahon himself. Each character portrait is a representation of McMahon, of masculinity, and of his past.

Freedom

Music US