: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Amen Dunes : Album.......: Freedom : : Label.......: Sacred Bones Records .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: SBR195CD . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2018-03-28 Str.date....: 2018-03-30 Quality.....: 238kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Intro 0:50 2. Blue Rose 4:06 3. Time 4:50 4. Skipping School 5:28 5. Calling Paul The Suffering 3:01 6. Miki Dora 5:03 7. Saturdarah 2:43 8. Believe 5:46 9. Dracula 4:16 10. Freedom 5:00 11. L.A. 6:03 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 47:06 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 85.84 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: With every record,?Damon McMahon?aka?Amen Dunes?has transformed, :, : and?Freedom?is the projectÆs boldest leap yet. : :' ': ,: The first LP,?D.I.A.,?was a gnarled underground classic, :, : recorded and played completely by McMahon in a trailer in : :' upstate New York over the course of a month and left as is. The ': ,: fourth and most recent LP?Love, a record that enlisted?Godspeed! :, : You Black Emperor?as both producers and backing band (along with : :' an additional motley crew including?Elias ': ,: Bender?R°nnenfelt?of?Iceage?and?Colin Stetson), featured songs :, : confidently far removed from the damaged drug pop of Amen : :' DunesÆ?trailer-park origins.? ': ,: :, : Love?took two years to make.?Freedom?took three. The first : :' iteration of the album was recorded in 2016 following a year of ': ,: writing in Lisbon and NYC, but it was scrapped completely. :, : Uncertain how to move forward, McMahon brought in a powerful set : :' of collaborators and old friends, and began anew. Along with ': ,: his core band members, including?Parker Kindred?(Antony & The :, : Johnsons,?Jeff Buckley)?on drums, came?Chris Coady?(Beach House) : :' as producer and?Delicate Steve?on guitars. This is the first ': ,: Amen Dunes record that looks back to the electronic influences :, : of McMahonÆs youth with the aid of revered underground musician : :' Panoram?from Rome. McMahon discovered PanoramÆs music in a shop ': ,: in London and became enamored. Following this the two became :, : friends and here Panoram finds his place as a significant, if : :' subtle, contributor to the record. ': ,: :, : The bulk of the songs were recorded at the famed?Electric Lady : :' Studios?in NYC (home of Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, DÆAngelo), and ': ,: finished at the similarly legendary?Sunset Sound?in L.A., where :, : McMahon,?Nick Zinner, and session bass player extraordinaire?Gus : :' Seyffert?(Beck,?Bedouine) fleshed out the recordings. ': ,: :, : On the surface,?Freedom?is a reflection on growing up, childhood : :' friends who ended up in prison or worse, male identity, ': ,: McMahonÆs 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 :, : colourful 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 and ': ,: towards something closer to what's stated in the?Agnes :, : Martin?quote that opens the record, ôI donÆt have any ideas : :' myself; I have a vacant mindö and in the swirling, pitched down ': ,: utterances of ôThat's all not meö that close it. :, : : :' The themes are darker than on previous Amen Dunes albums, but ': ,: itÆs a darkness sublimated through grooves. The music, as a :, : response or even a solution to the darkness, is tough and : :' joyous, rhythmic and danceable. The combination of a powerhouse ': ,: rhythm section, Delicate SteveÆs guitar prowess filtered through :, : Amen Dunes heft, and PanoramÆs electronic production background, : :' makes for a special and unique NYC street record. ': ,: :, : ItÆs 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. æBlue :, : RoseÆ and æCalling Paul the SufferingÆ are pure, ecstatic dance : :' songs. æSkipping SchoolÆ and æMiki DoraÆ are incantations of a ': ,: mythical heroic maleness and its illusions. æFreedomÆ and :, : æBelieveÆ offer a street toughÆs future-gospel exhalation, and : :' the funk-grime grit of æL.A.Æ closes the album, projecting a ': ,: musical hint of things to come. :, : : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 1 8 \/