One of my favourite tracks of the year thus far. Mika Dora the taster single for the new Amen Dunes album, entitled Freedom and out in March. In honour of a legendary Hungarian-born counterculture surfer. In the words of Damon McMahon, who is effectively Amen Dunes:
'Mika Dora was arguably the most gifted and innovative surfer of his generation and the foremost opponent of surfing's comercialization. He was also a lifelong criminal and retrograde: a true embodiment of the distorted male psyche. He was a living contradiction; both a symbol of free-living and inspiration, and of the false heroics American culture has always celebrated. With lyrics of regret and redemption at the end of one's youth,s and the song is about Dora, and myself, but ultimately it is a reflection on all manifestations of mythical heroic maleness and its illusions.'
The song just glides...
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