Damon McMahon’s Amen Dunes challenge is coming to an finish. He has launched a last album, Death Jokes II, in the present day, stripping again songs from latest album Death Jokes with producer Craig Silvey. Test it out under, by way of Sub Pop.
“That is the final chapter of the ultimate quantity,” McMahon mentioned in press supplies. “Goodbye, I’ve barely mentioned a phrase to you, nevertheless it’s at all times like that at events—we by no means actually see one another, we by no means say the issues we must always wish to; in actual fact it’s the identical in all places on this life. Let’s hope that after we are lifeless issues might 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 tune, 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 extra contributions from Panoram, Kwake Bass, Christoffer Berg, and Robbie Lee.
“Demise Jokes was about greater than I can summarize,” McMahon mentioned to Pitchfork. “Essentially the most I can say is the songs have little to do with precise loss of life, and extra concerning the loss of life of your insides.”
