Death Jokes
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.
With heretofore-seldom explored influences from hip-hop production and club music, Death Jokes is a complex chasm of fractured, intertwining ideas, songs that grasp for purpose, and songs with drops of sorts.
Death Jokes is the product of a very busy mind, expertly encapsulating the feeling of being trapped, distracted, and despondent.
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'Death Jokes' finds Amen Dunes tackling big issues and exploring influences from his youth, but the connection with his listeners still creates deeper meaning.
Death Jokes by Amen Dunes album review Tuhin Chakrabarti for Northern Transmissions. The LP is now available via Sub Pop Records