As legend has it that very fine Amen Dunes debut album called ‘Love’ took close to a year and a half, sixteen musicians, and five different recording studios to complete.
So much music was made and songs created that not all could make it onto the album; so arriving on 19th January 2015 via Sacred Bones is the EP ‘Cowboy Worship’.
There are some alternate takes here from Damon McMahon. A version of ‘Green Eyes’ featuring Harvey Milk’s Stephen Tanner and ‘I Can’t Dig It’ as it was originally arranged when the song was written in China,
There is also a band version of ‘Lezzy Head’, featuring Dunes mainstays Jordi Wheeler and Parker Kindred, as well as a cover of This Mortal Coil’s interpretation of Tim Buckley’s classic, ‘Song to the Siren’, featuring Ben Greenberg (Hubble) on guitar.
Damon had this to say about the EP. Cowboy Worship as a concept certainly did not begin with ‘Love’, but instead ‘Love’ began with Cowboy Worship, was born from it, and in turn added a new link to the chain.
It’s good to have some more music and those gloriously sparse vocals coming out of the speakers again. Let’s hope there is a full Amen Dunes album to follow later in the year.
Pete
9/11
EP track list:
I Know Myself (Montreal)
Song to the Siren
I Can’t Dig It (China Street Blues)
Green Eyes (Music Blues)
Lezzy Head (Burial)
Love (Montreal)
Amen Dunes 'Cowboy Worship' EP is set for release on Jan 19th via Sacred Bones.
