“When Damon McMahon began recording his next album as Amen Dunes, Freedom, his mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The previous two singles, “Miki Dora” and “Blue Rose,” drew inspiration from a problematic surfer-outlaw icon and McMahon’s own father, respectively. “Believe,” according to a press release, reckons with his mother’s impending mortality. The results—a master class in slow-buildi”
