Freedom (豆瓣)

表演者: Amen Dunes
流派: 民谣
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: CD
发行时间: 2018-03-30
出版者: Sacred Bones Records
唱片数: 1
条形码: 0616892561347

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7.8

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简介 · · · · · ·

　　With every record,Damon McMahonakaAmen Duneshas transformed, andFreedomis the project’s boldest leap yet.
　　The first LP,D.I.A.,was a gnarled underground classic, recorded and played completely by McMahon in a trailer in upstate New York over the course of a month and left as is. The fourth and most recent LPLove, a record that enlistedGodspeed! You Black Emperoras both p... (展开全部) 　　With every record,Damon McMahonakaAmen Duneshas transformed, andFreedomis the project’s boldest leap yet.
　　The first LP,D.I.A.,was a gnarled underground classic, recorded and played completely by McMahon in a trailer in upstate New York over the course of a month and left as is. The fourth and most recent LPLove, a record that enlistedGodspeed! You Black Emperoras both producers and backing band (along with an additional motley crew includingElias BenderRønnenfeltofIceageandColin Stetson), featured songs confidently far removed from the damaged drug pop of Amen Dunes’trailer-park origins.
　　Lovetook two years to make.Freedomtook three. The first iteration of the album was recorded in 2016 following a year of writing in Lisbon and NYC, but it was scrapped completely. Uncertain how to move forward, McMahon brought in a powerful set of collaborators and old friends, and began anew. Along with his core band members, includingParker Kindred(Antony & The Johnsons,Jeff Buckley)on drums, cameChris Coady(Beach House) as producer andDelicate Steveon guitars. This is the first Amen Dunes record that looks back to the electronic influences of McMahon’s youth with the aid of revered underground musician Panoramfrom Rome. McMahon discovered Panoram’s music in a shop in London and became enamored. Following this the two became friends and here Panoram finds his place as a significant, if subtle, contributor to the record.
　　The bulk of the songs were recorded at the famedElectric Lady Studiosin NYC (home of Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, D’Angelo), and finished at the similarly legendarySunset Soundin L.A., where McMahon,Nick Zinner, and session bass player extraordinaireGus Seyffert(Beck,Bedouine) fleshed out the recordings.
　　On the surface,Freedomis a reflection on growing up, childhood friends who ended up in prison or worse, male identity, McMahon’s father, and his mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the beginning of recording.
　　The characters that populate the musical world ofFreedomare a colourful mix of reality and fantasy: father and mother, Amen Dunes, teenage glue addicts and Parisian drug dealers, ghosts above the plains, fallen surf heroes, vampires, thugs from Naples and thugs from Houston, the emperor of Rome, Jews, Jesus, Tashtego, Perseus, even McMahon himself. Each character portrait is a representation of McMahon, of masculinity, and of his past.
　　Yet, if anything, these 11 songs are a relinquishing of all of them through exposition; a gradual reorientation of being away from the acquired definitions of self we all cling to and towards something closer to what's stated in theAgnes Martinquote that opens the record, “I don’t have any ideas myself; I have a vacant mind” and in the swirling, pitched down utterances of “That's all not me” that close it.
　　The themes are darker than on previous Amen Dunes albums, but it’s a darkness sublimated through grooves. The music, as a response or even a solution to the darkness, is tough and joyous, rhythmic and danceable. The combination of a powerhouse rhythm section, Delicate Steve’s guitar prowess filtered through Amen Dunes heft, and Panoram’s electronic production background, makes for a special and unique NYC street record.
　　It’s a sound never heard before on an Amen Dunes record, but one that was always asking to emerge. Eleven songs span a range of emotions, from contraction to release and back again. ‘Blue Rose’ and ‘Calling Paul the Suffering’ are pure, ecstatic dance songs. ‘Skipping School’ and ‘Miki Dora’ are incantations of a mythical heroic maleness and its illusions. ‘Freedom’ and ‘Believe’ offer a street tough’s future-gospel exhalation, and the funk-grime grit of ‘L.A.’ closes the album, projecting a musical hint of things to come.

曲目 · · · · · ·

Intro
Blue Rose
Time
Skipping School
Calling Paul the Suffering
Miki Dora
Satudarah
Believe
Dracula
Freedom
L.A.

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Damon McMahon的第五张个人专辑，他音乐生涯最private的作品，也是去年最让我感动的作品。第一次用自己照片做封面或许预示着他要迈出的重要的一步。Freedom在复古pysch-pop/alt-folk/rock找到了一个完美的平衡点：用幽灵般鬼祟的合成器和悬泻而下的guitar-work建立起一座极简的... (展开)