Amen Dunes
Freedom
2018This album was released 3 weeks ago.
| # | Song | 4WIM | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intro | ||
| 2 | Blue Rose | ||
| 3 | Time | ||
| 4 | Skipping School | ||
| 5 | Calling Paul the Suffering | ||
| 6 | Miki Dora | ||
| 7 | Satudarah | ||
| 8 | Believe | ||
| 9 | Dracula | ||
| 10 | Freedom | ||
| 11 | L.A. | ||
| Rating | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| 79% | 4WIM Rating | |
| 100% | New Musical Express | Life at home was often tough, and when McMahon went against his father’s wishes and began to pursue a career in music, he smothered anything autobiographical in low fidelity hiss and abstract artwork. |
| 90% | Exclaim! Music | Amen Dunes Freedom By Max Mohenu Published Mar 31, 2018 9 In his ten years as Amen Dunes, Damon McMahon's music has never shied away from introspection. |
| 90% | The Line of Best Fit | |
| 83% | Gaffa (Sweden) | |
| 82% | Paste Magazine | On Amen Dunes' new album Freedom, McMahon finally shows himself fully, and the results are both charmingly raw and uncommonly lovely. |
| 80% | Soundblab | Damon McMahon, the brainchild behind Amen Dunes, loaded his plate with some heady topics on Amen Dunes’ latest, Freedom. |
| 80% | No Ripcord | McMahon, who goes by the moniker Amen Dunes, tucked his sensitive songwriting in sheets of decadent noise. |
| 80% | The Firenote | Every record in Amen Dunes discography has been stronger than the one before and Freedom keeps the trend going as it is Damon McMahon’s finest work to date. |
| 75% | The 405 | Freedom is the sole word Damon McMahon chose to summate his most recent opus underneath the mask of Amen Dunes. |
| 74% | GIGsoup | Given this, Amen Dunes rewards prolonged engagement with the album; audiences may find their attention lazily drifting between McMahon‘s voice and session player Gus Seyffert‘s (Beck, Bedouine) propulsive basslines. |
| 73% | Earbuddy | We got albums like Kirin J Callinan’s Bravado and Alex Cameron’s Forced Witness, which tackled this theme, but they get just as much scrutiny for possibly celebrating it rather than renouncing it. |
| 60% | The Guardian | Songs such as Believe carry on the affinity Amen Dunes’ older music had with early Spiritualized or Mazzy Star. |
| 60% | Tiny Mixtapes | Recently, albums dealing with the experience of grief — in particular, Mount Eerie, but also, for example, Japanese Breakfast — have been prominent on the cultural landscape. |