AMEN DUNES SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘BELIEVE’
NEW ALBUM FREEDOM OUT 30 MARCH VIA SACRED BONES
“’Blue Rose’ is imbued with the hunger of an artist with everything to prove.”
Pitchfork (Best New Track)
“This is set to be the fullest sounding Amen Dunes record yet”
‘Track of the Day’, The 405
“Damon McMahon’s fifth album as Amen Dunes promises to be one of 2018’s best indie records”
Music Week
“McMahon can push anything through his creative filter […] and it will still sound like Amen Dunes. That’s only a good thing – sometimes a great one”
4/5 Q
Listen to ‘Believe’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0xxKdcwqi0
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Amen Dunes (aka the project of New York-based Damon McMahon) will release his fifth album, Freedom, on 30 March via Sacred Bones. 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 the album are a colourful mix of reality and fantasy. Each character portrait is a representation of McMahon, of masculinity, and of his past. Yet, ultimately, these eleven songs are a relinquishing of all of them through exposition.
After sharing singles ‘Miki Dora‘ and ‘Blue Rose,’ Amen Dunes now presents the album’s final pre-release song, ‘Believe’ – a track with an irresistibly comfortable tempo that gradually opens itself out into one of the albums most powerful and satisfyingly visceral moments. If one song could sum up all the reflection and questioning of Freedom, it would be ‘Believe’. With McMahon’s mother’s illness and mortality functioning as a spiritual pivot point, ‘Believe’ is a song of forgiveness and of reckoning. Where McMahon once judged his mother’s disregard for life, he has come to admire it as she approaches death. She serves as guru in ‘Believe’, a spectre over the song:
“Well, seems to me baby, you don’t want to stay
That’s O.K. if that’s true
Life goes on, and this is just a song
But still I do it for you
I can feel it in the air tonight
Summer’s almost done
They said you lived out on the wrong side
You said that’s half the fun”
And where much of the album has struggled with the concept of self, ‘Believe’ is an almost joyful acceptance of its passing, shaped in the wake of his mother’s illness.
“I believe, can’t deny it
Seen heaven, don’t get down
When I was a kid I was afraid to die
But I growed up now
If I’m caught in the hour of dark
Won’t laugh, won’t make a sound
I won’t scream, and I won’t get excited
I know God’s underground”
As the song fades, it concludes with a dance groove and a simple mantra:
“When things go black, I got you”
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Watch the previously shared video for Miki Dora here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RONXqXaF8oI
Pre-order Freedom here: https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr195-amen-dunes-freedom
Image credit – Michael Schmelling
Tour Dates:
30 Apr – Brighton @ Prince Albert
1 May – Leeds @ Headroom House
2 May – London @ Omeara
7 – 9 Jun – Porto, PT @ NOS Primavera Sound
30 Aug – 2 Sep – Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
6 – 9 Sep – Portmeirion, UK @ Festival No. 6
23 Apr – Berlin, DE @ Privatclub
24 Apr – Hamburg, DE @ Goldener Salon
25 Apr – Copenhagen, DK @ Hotel Cecil
27 Apr – Brussels, BE @ Grand Salon Boutique
28 Apr – Paris, FR @ Badaboum
Praise for Amen Dunes:
“’Blue Rose’ is imbued with the hunger of an artist with everything to prove.”
Pitchfork (Best New Track)
“This is set to be the fullest sounding Amen Dunes record yet”
‘Track of the Day’, The 405
“Damon McMahon’s fifth album as Amen Dunes promises to be one of 2018’s best indie records”
Music Week
“An expertly pieced together return”
Clash
“[Amen Dunes] has a striking gift for articulation”
GoldFlakePaint
“Freedom takes McMahon’s ever-evolving Amen Dunes project into exciting territory”
8/10 Future Music
‘8/10’ Uncut
“McMahon can push anything through his creative filter […] and it will still sound like Amen Dunes. That’s only a good thing – sometimes a great one”
4/5 Q