Amen Dunes - Freedom (2018) [16 44 FLAC]

Amen Dunes - Freedom (2018) [16.44 FLAC]

Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock, Indie Folk
Source: CD (log + cue)
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~ 900 kbps
Bit Depth: 16
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz

01 Intro
02 Blue Rose
03 Time
04 Skipping School
05 Calling Paul the Suffering
06 Miki Dora
07 Satudarah
08 Believe
09 Dracula
10 Freedom
11 L.A.

Amen Dunes' Damon McMahon begins Freedom with a pair of illuminating quotes. "This is your time!," a child shouts, then McMahon's mother -- who was diagnosed with terminal cancer when he began making the album -- reads a quote from painter Agnes Martin: "I don't have any ideas myself. I am a vacant mind." This feeling of change and openness resonates throughout Freedom, a set of songs that are as simple and complex as their title. Fittingly, McMahon sounds liberated from any expectations of what Amen Dunes should sound like, and worked with a small army of collaborators to deliver his widest-ranging music yet. Along with Parker Kindred and Delicate Steve, Freedom features Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who sound as spacious yet restrained as they did on Amen Dunes' previous album, Love; atmospheric electronic artist Panoram; and producer Chris Coady, who gives the album just enough sheen to blend its strains of folk, rock, and electronic music into a cohesive whole. As McMahon brings the beat to the fore, it doesn't weigh down his music -- if anything, it affords him more ways to express himself. Transcendent, transporting rhythms make it clear what he means when he sings "we play religious music" on "Blue Rose," and lend an insistent momentum to "L.A." that reinforces there's no going back. While Freedom frequently sounds effortless -- particularly on its luminous title track -- it's never simple