{"id":814365,"date":"2024-12-24T01:19:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T07:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/amen-dunes-announces-end-of-project-shares-death-jokes-ii\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T01:19:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T07:19:59","slug":"amen-dunes-announces-end-of-project-shares-death-jokes-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/amen-dunes-announces-end-of-project-shares-death-jokes-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Amen Dunes Announces End Of Project, Shares \u2018Death Jokes II\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“This is the last chapter…”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n 11 \u00b7 12 \u00b7 2024 <\/p>\n

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Amen Dunes<\/strong> is coming to a close.<\/p>\n

The project is led by Damon McMahon, a remarkable songwriter and deeply individual vocalist. Debut project \u2018DIA\u2019 landed back in 2009, with Amen Dunes then becoming a key part of the Sacred Bones<\/strong> firmament.<\/p>\n

Latterly working with Sub Pop, Amen Dunes released his latest album \u2018Death Jokes\u2019 last year. <\/p>\n

Now \u2013 sadly \u2013 it seems the project has come to an end. Sharing \u2018Death Jokes II\u2019 \u2013 a series of re-workings crafted alongside producer Craig Silvey \u2013 Damon McMahon has issued a statement, explaining that Amen Dunes is no more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the last chapter of the final volume,\u201d McMahon writes. \u201cGoodbye, I\u2019ve barely said a word to you, but it\u2019s always like that at parties\u2014we never really see each other, we never say the things we should like to; in fact it\u2019s the same everywhere in this life. Let\u2019s hope that when we are dead things will be better arranged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen to \u2018Death Jokes II\u2019 below.<\/p>\n

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CLASH spoke to Damon McMahon last year about the evolution of Amen Dunes<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, and he reflected:<\/p>\n

Every single album I\u2019ve done has been different. The first one was \u2018DIA\u2019 back in 2009. That channelled a very harsh, German influenced, hard psych kind of sound. I\u2019d say \u2018Love\u2019 (2014) was the first more straighter sounding record, which had more of a jazz influence going on.\u00a0And then \u2018Freedom\u2019 came<\/a><\/strong>, and for me that was a radical departure from all of my back catalogue and is still the real outlier. That was where I wanted to experiment with music I love from bands like Thin Lizzy, and other clean music with slick production. If anything, \u2018Death Jokes\u2019 sounds most like \u2018DIA\u2019. The aesthetics are different, but they both channel a similarly free spirit. So, the ethos at the heart of it has been the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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