Michael Schmelling
Amen Dunes, the name under which Damon McMahon has released music for the past 18 years, has shared what McMahon has said is its final album. Death Jokes II, an accompaniment to this year’s Death Jokes, can be heard below.
In a statement released alongside the album, McMahon said: “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 began in 2006 with debut album D.I.A. arriving that same year. McMahon released 6 full-length albums and 2 EPs over the subsequent years, including projects on Sub Pop Records and Sacred Bones.
Speaking to The FADER about Death Jokes in May of this year, McMahon described the album as “a manifestation of my sublimation of the internet. I’m guided by the algorithm, but I made it beautiful and I made it folky and I made it my own.”
Death Jokes II is comprised of stripped down remixes of songs from the album by Craig Silvey, plus unheard contributions from contributors Panoram, Kwake Bass and Robbie Lee.Check it out below.
