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Amen Dunes, the solo project of New York-based vocalist and guitarist Damon
McMahon, delved into the raw, chaotic, fuzzed-out psychedelic freakouts of the
1960s with DIA (Locust, 2009).
The album's highlights are
Amen Dunes, a merry-go-round of
lysergic litanies, spastic dueling guitars and childish drumming,
and the
psychotic shout'n'blues Miami Beach.
White Lace starts out as a simple folk hymn with psychedelic vocals
but then slowly decays into absolute aural mayhem.
Surprisingly, the very same band dishes out the
atmospheric twangy slow-paced instrumental Fleshless Esta Mira Wife of Space
and the ordinary country shuffle Patagonian Domes.
By the Bridal sounds like a languid version of Neil Young's Harvest.
And the rest of the album becomes more and more conventional, becoming a
rather tedious listening all the way down to the solo chant
Breaker.
The EP Murder Dull Mind (Sacred Bones, 2010) was a more focused
affair, although the songs (probably improvised with little or no editing)
still suffered from an amateurish quality and from a new introverted
awkwardness.
Through Donkey Jaw (Sacred Bones, 2011) moved in the exact opposite
direction with the naive refrains of Baba Yaga and
Not A Slave, although redeemed by the ten-minute noise jam
Tomorrow Never Knows.
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