| Here’s What’s Left: Amen Dunes “Cowboy Worship EP” | February 4, 2015 |
Will Schube likes his sugar with coffee and cream The warble of Damon McMahon’s voice brings a sense of comfort not dissimilar from those go-to foods saved for special occasions. There’s something vast and intimate about McMahon’s melancholy. The latest Amen Dunes record, Love, utilized a far more expansive landscape than his previous works under […]
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Amen Dunes “Song to the Siren” | December 10, 2014 |
Douglas Martin kicks the tires on Amen Dunes' cover of a beloved tune by Tim Buckley and This Mortal Coil
Douglas Martin listened to 1,498 records this year. By a rough estimate. A bunch of great indie labels released music this year. If I paid tribute to them all, it would feature over 100 albums with a word count that rivals The Iliad. Sub Pop, Matador, Merge, Domino, 4AD, Slumberland, Captured Tracks, Woodsist, In the […]
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Spellbinding Strangeness of Amen Dunes | September 20, 2011 |
Douglas Martin also enjoys Dunes. In spite of garnering comparisons to nearly every old “weird” singer / songwriter on the block (Skip Spence, Roky Erickson, Chris Knox, etc.), there’s something remarkably distinctive about the music of Amen Dunes. For starters, he sounds like he’s singing words from a different language. Sometimes it sounds like he’s […]
