Amen Dunes - Death Jokes (Colored Vinyl, Gatefold) 30 (CD)

Amen Dunes - Death Jokes (Colored Vinyl, Gatefold) 30 (CD)Loser Edition on clear vinyl. Tip on gatefold jacket with custom dust sleeves and insert. With Death Jokes, for the first time since the project's incarnation in 2006, the spiritual reflections and meditations of Amen Dunes are turned away from himself, and out sharply towards the world. The album is also a drastic turn musically and thematically, rooted in the electronic music of raves and of rap music he grew up with but never imagined himself able

Produced by Mark Ronson and co-produced by Mark Rankin and mixed by Alan Moulder

2004 on ANTI- Records and is now proudly re-issued by Kill Rock Stars - now home of all of Elliott's indie releases

Don’t Touch Me 8

wrapped in a whirlwind of sounds

The singing is new

and new liner notes

the Brooklyn-based group abandons improvisation in favor of composition

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio) on guitar and Neal Sugarman (Sugarman 3

circuitous melodic avenues

Future Islands brilliantly expresses the band's central themes they've been exploring for the last decade: that there is power in emotional vulnerability

Stereogum called it "a tongue-in-cheek exploration of ideas of confidence and self-loathing

Their live performances are moving voyages into the depth of anxiety and love