Amen Dunes’ excellent 2014 record, Love, felt like a clearing out. It pared back some of the gauze from his previous records, maintaining mystery and texture but letting a bit more of the voice at the center of the songs through. There was a newfound intimacy. On Cowboy Worship, Amen Dunes revisits that intimacy. Of the six songs on the new EP, four are reworkings of tracks from Love, and the results are often interesting. “I Know Myself” and “Love” don’t sound terribly different here, but there’s a faint new clarity to these version, making the songs feel even more laid-bare and vulnerable than before. “Green Eyes”, on the other hand, murks up the dark, thin fog of the Love version. “I Can’t Dig It” trades the lacerating guitars of the album take for a rattling jangle. Paired with these reworkings is “Lezzy Head (Burial)”, a new version of a track from Amen Dunes’ 2011 record, Through Donkey Jaw, and a cover of Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren”. The former is the perfect example of what Amen Dunes has discovered about the texture found in clearer layers, in letting the listener into the sound instead of burying it in atmosphere. The latter suggests, perhaps, one of the inspirations for the evolution of Amen Dunes’ sound. The cover is both true to Buckley and somehow singularly sounds like Amen Dunes. Cowboy Worship is a curious companion piece to Love, and a set of songs that shows Amen Dunes pushing ever slowly forward, without leaving much behind.