Amen Dunes - Boys

What this video is

Released March 7, 2024, 'Boys' arrived as the second single from Amen Dunes' Death Jokes — Damon McMahon's first album since 2018's Freedom and his Sub Pop debut. The video lands inside a broader 2024 cultural moment of renewed scrutiny of American masculinity, male violence, and outcast identity. McMahon's framing of 'bad kids' as empathetic subjects — 'Everything you've done, it's been done to you too' —…

Why it matters

The video marks a pivotal aesthetic shift for Amen Dunes — away from eerie folk-blues toward frenetic electronic punk — visualized through raw domestic destruction rather than the pastoral or studio-performance formats of earlier work. It situates Brahms and McMahon as key collaborators in a 2024…

The director

Steven Brahms is a director and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. His commercial clients include Hermès, Dolce & Gabbana, Vogue, Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren, Nike, and Saks. He has a sustained creative relationship with Amen Dunes, having previously…