Album artwork for Freedom (Sacred Bones 15 Year Edition) by Amen Dunes

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. Yet, if anything, these 11 songs are a relinquishing of all of them through exposition; a gradual reorientation of being away from the acquired definitions of self we all cling to. The music, as a response or even a solution to the album’s darker themes, is tough and joyous, rhythmic and danceable; a true NYC street record.

Sacred Bones is now repressing Amen Dunes’ critically acclaimed breakthrough record Freedom in a bunch of new colors in celebration of the label’s 15th year anniversary.

Amen Dunes

Freedom (Sacred Bones 15 Year Edition)

Sacred Bones Records
Album artwork for Freedom (Sacred Bones 15 Year Edition) by Amen Dunes
LP +

$23.99

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Blue Rose Vinyl

Rough Trade Exclusive
Limited to 300 copies
Released 09/30/2022Catalog Number

SBR195lp-C6

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Album artwork for Freedom (Sacred Bones 15 Year Edition) by Amen Dunes
LP +

$22.99

Blue Wave Vinyl

Released 09/30/2022Catalog Number

SBR195lp-C5

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Amen Dunes

Freedom (Sacred Bones 15 Year Edition)

Sacred Bones Records
Album artwork for Freedom (Sacred Bones 15 Year Edition) by Amen Dunes
LP +

$23.99

exclusive

Blue Rose Vinyl

Rough Trade Exclusive
Limited to 300 copies
Released 09/30/2022Catalog Number

SBR195lp-C6

Learn more
Album artwork for Freedom (Sacred Bones 15 Year Edition) by Amen Dunes
LP +

$22.99

Blue Wave Vinyl

Released 09/30/2022Catalog Number

SBR195lp-C5

Learn more

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. Yet, if anything, these 11 songs are a relinquishing of all of them through exposition; a gradual reorientation of being away from the acquired definitions of self we all cling to. The music, as a response or even a solution to the album’s darker themes, is tough and joyous, rhythmic and danceable; a true NYC street record.

Sacred Bones is now repressing Amen Dunes’ critically acclaimed breakthrough record Freedom in a bunch of new colors in celebration of the label’s 15th year anniversary.