Death Jokes II, by Amen Dunes

Death Jokes II

by Amen Dunes

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Charlie Moonbeam Amen Dunes is gone.

And Damon has left us with this parting gift. Death Jokes II takes his dense, edgy and abstract record Death Jokes and strips it down and re-envisioning it as a contemplative more acoustic endeavor.

As such, the record is heartbreakingly beautiful, the culmination of everything to love about the Amen Dunes project.

Damon, we love you, we will miss you, thank you for the gifts you have shared through this project.

Amen Dunes forever ✊ Favorite track: Exodus (Do It).

Fedaykin A wonderful, haunting, foggy, warm coda to Amen Dunes. Goodbye and fare forward, voyager. Favorite track: Round the World (Down South).

Dmillz I'm very thankful for this release, and I mourn the loss of the project that was and is Amen Dunes. I wish Mr. McMahon whatever future he wishes for himself, and, selfishly, I hope it includes more art from this beautiful soul.

Thank you for what you've given us.

5gbrainomelette This album has got an eerie feel that I am especially attracted to today.

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1.	Ian (Sunriser) 02:41	info
2.	What I Want (Night Driver) 02:41	info
3.	Exodus (Do It) 04:07	info
4.	Rugby Child (300 Miles Per Hour) 03:17	info
5.	Purple Land (In The Springs) 04:53	info
6.	Mary Anne (Senigallia) 02:49	info
7.	Italy Pop Punk 03:18	info
8.	I Don't Mind (Q Loop) 04:27	info
9.	Round the World (Down South) 08:01	info
10.	Ian (Goodbye) 02:50	info

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Death Jokes II is the final work of the acclaimed Amen Dunes project. 

This is the last chapter of the final volume. Goodbye, I've barely said a word to you, but it's always like that at parties - we never really see each other, we never say the things we should like to; in fact it's the same everywhere in this life. Let's hope that when we are dead things will be better arranged.

Amen Dunes was founded in 2006 with D.I.A., an album he recorded on an 8-track recorder in a trailer in Upstate New York. It grew from there, with McMahon releasing 6 full-length albums and 2 EPs over the last 18 years. Today he releases the 7th and final album, Death Jokes II, a reworked version of his May 2024 Sub Pop debut, Death Jokes. Hailed as “a daring turn in a different direction” by NPR Music, “a testament to McMahon’s sheer artistic brilliance” by Stereogum, and “a body of musical work that’s often as confounding as it is brilliant” by GQ, Death Jokes marked a major departure from Amen Dunes’ previous output, an ambitious album that saw McMahon immerse himself in the electronic music he grew up with but never imagined himself able to make.

Death Jokes was a complex project that took close to four years to complete and was recorded in various iterations, including an alternate version of the album recorded in June of 2021 at the famed East West Studios in Los Angeles (in the "Pet Sounds" and the haunted "Whitney Houston" rooms)  with Money Mark (Beastie Boys) on keyboards, and both Jim Keltner (Bob Dylan et. al) and Carla Azar (Autolux) on drums.

In reimagining the album as Death Jokes II, McMahon revisited all that material for stripped down remixes of the songs by Craig Silvey. These new mixes also include unheard contributions from notable Death Jokes contributors Panoram, Kwake Bass (Dean Blunt, MF DOOM), Christoffer Berg (Fever Ray), and Robbie Lee, a multi-instrumentalist and NYC veteran.

Death Jokes II is a celebration of endings and of deaths, marking the end of Amen Dunes, itself.

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released December 10, 2024

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Death Jokes II

Dec 2024
Death Jokes

May 2024
Feel Nothing

Jul 2021
L.A. (Remix feat. Westerman)

Aug 2019
Freedom

Mar 2018
Cowboy Worship

Jan 2015
Love

May 2014
Spoiler

Sep 2013
Through Donkey Jaw

Aug 2011
Murder Dull Mind

Jul 2010

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