Amen Dunes Releases Poignant “Believe” Music Video
Images via Michael Schmelling, Sacred Bones Records
Amen Dunes’ latest release, the raw and intimate Freedom, leaps into the depths of relationships as experienced by Damon McMahon (the man behind Amen Dunes). A music video for “Believe” has just been released that visually explores mortality and relationships with the women in his life.
The music video (dir. Steven Brahms) includes home videos, conveying the quick passage of time as we see a clip of a young boy, presumably McMahon, lying on the ground switch to a scene of adult McMahon lying on the ground—the lyrics “when I was a kid I was afraid to die” resonate through the images. McMahon’s mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the beginning of recording Freedom, and so one of the video’s most poignant moments is a home video in a graveyard where a boy is standing with his mother. The voice behind the camera belongs to another young boy, who says, “There’s mom, say hi mom,” and the woman turns and waves. The video ends with the same clip, but the audio is blocked out of the video and as the image crackles away, the wave becomes a goodbye.
Paste named Freedom one of the 20 best albums of 2018 (so far). You can watch the video for “Believe” off that record below and find Amen Dunes’ tour dates further down.