“Amen Dunes’ Death Jokes is a knotty triumph of contradiction and catharsis”
“Filtered through warped hip-hop beats and garbled samples, Damon McMahon’s self-produced sixth album is a characteristically oblique apocalypse tale about living for today.”
“Many of Damon McMahon's releases under the Amen Dunes moniker have been marked by a sense of musical and lyrical austerity. Even among the gauzy layers that wrapped 2011's Through Donkey Jaw or the sonic bubbles that simmered gently atop 2014's Love, McMahon's songwriting and production choices have felt, more often than not, like exercises in presenting "three chords and the truth." That changed ”
