Sacred Bones
Amen Dunes - Freedom (Sacred Bones 15th Anniversary Blue Wave Vinyl)
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On
the
surface,
Freedom
is
a
reflection
on
growing
up,
childhood
friends
who
ended
up
in
prison
or
worse,
male
identity,
McMahon’s
father,
and
his
mother,
who
was
diagnosed
with
terminal
cancer
at
the
beginning
of
recording.
The
characters
that
populate
the
musical
world
of
Freedom
are
a
colorful
mix
of
reality
and
fantasy:
father
and
mother,
Amen
Dunes,
teenage
glue
addicts
and
Parisian
drug
dealers,
ghosts
above
the
plains,
fallen
surf
heroes,
vampires,
thugs
from
Naples
and
thugs
from
Houston,
the
emperor
of
Rome,
Jews,
Jesus,
Tashtego,
Perseus,
even
McMahon
himself.
Each
character
portrait
is
a
representation
of
McMahon,
of
masculinity,
and
of
his
past.
Yet,
if
anything,
these
11
songs
are
a
relinquishing
of
all
of
them
through
exposition;
a
gradual
reorientation
of
being
away
from
the
acquired
definitions
of
self
we
all
cling
to.
The
music,
as
a
response
or
even
a
solution
to
the
album’s
darker
themes,
is
tough
and
joyous,
rhythmic
and
danceable;
a
true
NYC
street
record.
Sacred
Bones
is
now
repressing
Amen
Dunes’
critically
acclaimed
breakthrough
record
Freedom
in
a
bunch
of
new
colors
in
celebration
of
the
label’s
15th
year
anniversary.
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