Amen Dunes announce new album and tour, share video for new song 'Purple Land'
Death jokes Out May 10 via Sub Pop
February 08, 2024
Photo by Michael Schmelling
Amen Dunes (aka Damon McMahon) has announced a new album, Death jokes, and shared his first single, “Purple Land,” via a music video. He has also announced some new tour dates. Death jokes is due for release on May 10 via Sub Pop, his first album for the label. Check out the single below, followed by the tracklist and album art, as well as tour dates.
Death jokes follows Amen Dunes' acclaimed 2018 album, Freedomwhich was released on Scared Bones and the 2021 single “Feel Nothing”, which featured UK duo Sleaford Mods and was his first single for Sub Pop.
Death jokes she went through a lengthy labor process, with labor set to begin in 2019. McMahon experienced health issues in 2020, including COVID-19, and lost 30 pounds. In recent years, his first child was born and he moved from Los Angeles to Woodstock, New York. McMahon also struggled to find collaborators who could align with his vision for the album. He eventually ended up working with jazz bassist Sam Wilkes and producers Christoffer Berg (Fever Ray) and Kwake Bass (Tirzah, Dean Blunt), as well as doing sessions with Panoram and Money Mark. The latest album features samples taken from YouTube videos, including standup routines by Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor.
Of the album's first single, McMahon says in a press release: “'Purple Land' is one of the album's interstitial character portraits: first a child, then the narrator, then a powerful figure as they all navigate and find release from the disconnection and frustration of an uncertain world. It first begins as a song for my daughter about life on earth, offering platitudes, warnings and guidance through its various stages, until it becomes a reflection on the narrator's own uncertainties as she moves through the world, finally ending with a Rhea Anne character who it exemplifies breaking free from all of that in a moment of simple reckless freedom as the tempo drops in the song's final minute.”
Read our 2018 interview with Amen Dunes at Freedom.
Death jokes Track List:
1. Death jokes
2. Ian
3. Joyrider
4. What I Want
5. Rugby Kid
6. Boys
7. Exit
8. Predator
9. Solo Tape
10. Purple Earth
11. I don't mind
12. Mary Anne
13. Round the world
14. Poor cops
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Amen Dunes tour Dates:
Marry. May 8 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
Fri May 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether
Marry. May 15 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Mon July 1 – Paris, FR @ Trabendo
Marry. July 3 – Berlin, DE @ Gretchen
Fri 5th July – Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde festival
Sun. July 7 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Tue 9 Jul – London, UK @ KOKO
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