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First Listen: Amen Dunes, 'Freedom'

Amen Dunes fourth album is a confrontation with the past, full of the nuance and contradiction of person in chaos struggling to do what's right, as well as some of Damon McMahon's strongest songs.
Amen Dunes' <em>Freedom</em> is out Mar. 30 on Sacred Bones.

Explaining "," the first song we heard from his fourth album as , Damon McMahon wrote in January that the iconic surfer of the title served as "a true embodiment of the distorted male psyche" and "a reflection on all manifestations of mythical heroic maleness and its illusions." But listening to it, you could be forgiven for thinking the song is starry-eyed. "Miki so fine," he sings. It takes some work, or time, to hear the

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