Death Jokes

First new album from acclaimed, forward-thinking indie artist Amen Dunes since the beloved 2018 album Freedom, and his first album on Sub Pop Records. Recorded primarily by Amen Dunes his studio in NY, Death Jokes features jazz bassist Sam Wilkes on a trio of songs, producers Christoffer Berg (Fever Ray) and Kwake Bass (Tirzah & Dean BLunt) on several others, and appearances by Panoram and Money Mark. The work on Death Jokes began just weeks before the first word of the pandemic came in the winter of 2019; it was completed three years later as we began to emerge from the worst. The album's meaning morphed as the pandemic went on, first a reflection on our attachment to form, and to ourselves, and then shifting into a solemn indictment of our culture’s blind spots as we misjudge and attack, veiled self-centeredness, and self-importance masquerading as morality.