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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 to make, playing like a scathing electronic essay on America s culture of violence, dominance, and destructive individualism. 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. – Sub Pop