{"title":"Dungen","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"dungen-en-ar-for-mycket-och-tusen-aldrig-nog-184923133622","title":"Dungen - En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog CD","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGustav Ejstes has always been on his way to someplace else. The Swedish musician has been making records as Dungen for two decades now, and while he’s lauded as one of the sharpest and most adventurous musicians in psychedelic music since 2004’s breakthrough Ta det lungt, for Ejstes psych has always been only a starting point. Or maybe it’s something more like an ethos—psych with its promise of exploration, the way it prioritizes seeking out new sounds, of leaving the old self behind, of setting into the ether to see what else might be out there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEn Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog (One is Too Much and a Thousand is Never Enough) is the first Dungen record since 2016’s Häxan and the first proper Dungen studio album since Allas Sak was released in 2015. If we’re thinking of psych-rock as a genre, with its readymade tropes—fuzz guitars, shimmering harmonies, pastoral textures—it’s possibly the least psychedelic record Ejstes has ever made. But if psych is really about transcending what’s come before in favor of new ways of seeing and hearing, then the opposite is true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd that means En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog goes further out than any Dungen record before it. There are classic psych rave-ups, of course, and the kind of brilliant vocal harmonies Ejstes has long made his trademark. There are soft, shuffling grooves that transform into wide-eyed cosmic revelations. There are intimate songs guided by Ejstes and his piano, which he plays so gently it sounds like he’s trying not to wake someone in the next room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47589447369005,"sku":"184923133622","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/5802\/8845\/files\/ReleaseProduct-311664-172846.jpg?v=1700162815"},{"product_id":"dungen-en-ar-for-mycket-och-tusen-aldrig-nog-184923133608","title":"Dungen - En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog Burgundy Vinyl","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGustav Ejstes has always been on his way to someplace else. The Swedish musician has been making records as Dungen for two decades now, and while he’s lauded as one of the sharpest and most adventurous musicians in psychedelic music since 2004’s breakthrough Ta det lungt, for Ejstes psych has always been only a starting point. Or maybe it’s something more like an ethos—psych with its promise of exploration, the way it prioritizes seeking out new sounds, of leaving the old self behind, of setting into the ether to see what else might be out there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEn Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog (One is Too Much and a Thousand is Never Enough) is the first Dungen record since 2016’s Häxan and the first proper Dungen studio album since Allas Sak was released in 2015. If we’re thinking of psych-rock as a genre, with its readymade tropes—fuzz guitars, shimmering harmonies, pastoral textures—it’s possibly the least psychedelic record Ejstes has ever made. 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There are intimate songs guided by Ejstes and his piano, which he plays so gently it sounds like he’s trying not to wake someone in the next room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47589447401773,"sku":"184923133608","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/5802\/8845\/files\/ReleaseProduct-311664-171572.jpg?v=1700162739"},{"product_id":"dungen-en-ar-for-mycket-och-tusen-aldrig-nog-184923133615","title":"Dungen - En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog Standard Black Vinyl","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGustav Ejstes has always been on his way to someplace else. The Swedish musician has been making records as Dungen for two decades now, and while he’s lauded as one of the sharpest and most adventurous musicians in psychedelic music since 2004’s breakthrough Ta det lungt, for Ejstes psych has always been only a starting point. Or maybe it’s something more like an ethos—psych with its promise of exploration, the way it prioritizes seeking out new sounds, of leaving the old self behind, of setting into the ether to see what else might be out there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEn Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog (One is Too Much and a Thousand is Never Enough) is the first Dungen record since 2016’s Häxan and the first proper Dungen studio album since Allas Sak was released in 2015. If we’re thinking of psych-rock as a genre, with its readymade tropes—fuzz guitars, shimmering harmonies, pastoral textures—it’s possibly the least psychedelic record Ejstes has ever made. But if psych is really about transcending what’s come before in favor of new ways of seeing and hearing, then the opposite is true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd that means En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog goes further out than any Dungen record before it. There are classic psych rave-ups, of course, and the kind of brilliant vocal harmonies Ejstes has long made his trademark. There are soft, shuffling grooves that transform into wide-eyed cosmic revelations. There are intimate songs guided by Ejstes and his piano, which he plays so gently it sounds like he’s trying not to wake someone in the next room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47589447467309,"sku":"184923133615","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/5802\/8845\/files\/ReleaseProduct-311664-171573.jpg?v=1700162849"},{"product_id":"dungen-skit-i-allt-184923100600","title":"Dungen - Skit I Allt CD","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnly available in North America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn what felt like a very short decade, Sweden’s \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e has mutated at a furious pace. Main man\/ producer\/ arranger\/ singer\/ golden child Gustav Ejstes’s lone constant has been change. Take the leap from Dungen’s self-titled 2001 debut, featuring long psilocybic exploratory tracks of aural tomfoolery, to next year’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStadsvandringar\u003c\/em\u003e, which found Ejstes coming to grips with the language of rock. It all converged with the zeitgeist that is Dungen’s third album, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTa Det Lugt\u003c\/em\u003e, an album that ignited the blogosphere so that it glowed like the aurora borealis. Not content to revel in such accolades, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-tio-bitar\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-tio-bitar\/\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTio Bitar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e flashed the band’s pop smarts as well as their incandescent freakouts while \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-4\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-4\/\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e put the band’s cohesiveness on display, at once gorgeous and biting.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFor those who don’t have their English-Svenska Dictionary close at hand when plunking\/ popping\/ importing \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen’s\u003c\/a\u003e sixth album\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Skit I Allt\u003c\/em\u003e into their respective LP\/CD\/ MP3 listening devices, let’s make sure the title doesn’t get lost in translation: “Fuck All.” Really? Should we be expecting a nihilistic punk album? “For me, it means ‘Don’t give a shit, forget about it, just go ahead and do it,'” laughs Ejstes. “\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSkit I Allt\u003c\/em\u003e is about a certain feeling: you’re with your friends and mates, all hanging out till 6 in the morning. You’re the last one left at the party and you call this person that you want to be with. They’re asleep, but they still say, ‘Ah, fuck it, come over.’ It’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethat\u003c\/em\u003e feeling.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJust don’t think that with \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSkit I Allt\u003c\/em\u003e the band is reducible to any one feeling. Or musical genre. At ease with effervescent pop, third-eye popping psychedelia, heavy rock, spider-web folk and breezy jazz, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen’s\u003c\/a\u003e dynamism astounds throughout. Rather than remain only Ejstes’ studio vision, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e is a muscular full band now. Guitarist Reine Fiske, bassist Mattias Gustavsson, and drummer Johan Holmegard are fully integrated into Ejstes’ vision of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e: “Whether you perceive \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e as a band or as me and my songs and my productions, the band is something totally free. They take the songs somewhere else.” Take “Soda,” which moves from gentle finger-picked guitar to a rollicking beat that makes the song gush forth in all its glory. With the sumptuous opener “Vara Snabb,” \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\"\u003eDungen’s\u003c\/a\u003e jazz chops are evident. From there, the band reveals the aching, handclap-propelled, strings-laced ballad “Min Anda Van.” Ejstes confesses: “It translates as ‘My Only Friend.’ It’s dedicated to a friend who got very ill and it’s my most personal song yet.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eWhile the album is stuffed with concise songs (nothing running beyond five minutes) there are already candidates aplenty here for \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen’s\u003c\/a\u003e live blotter-fueled sonic maelstroms. ““Hogdalstoppen” (named for a massive junkyard near Ejstes’ flat) is already a massive instrumental track that we’ve started expanding between 5 and 15 minutes,” Ejstes says. Perhaps the instrumental “Blandband” (trans. “Mixtape”) exemplifies the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e philosophy best. A mélange of bright piano chords, snaking lead guitar, and weightless woodwinds, it twists and turns like a forest path. The song was inspired, says Ejstes, “by a friend made me a cassette recently and I missed that antiquated way of listening. I like finding out about music fast but at the same time, I like listening to whole albums. I conceive \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e music in that same way: side one, side two, a journey.” Enjoy the trip.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47589447500077,"sku":"184923100600","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/5802\/8845\/files\/302227.jpg?v=1700163008"},{"product_id":"dungen-skit-i-allt-184923100617","title":"Dungen - Skit I Allt Standard Black Vinyl","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnly available in North America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn what felt like a very short decade, Sweden’s \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e has mutated at a furious pace. Main man\/ producer\/ arranger\/ singer\/ golden child Gustav Ejstes’s lone constant has been change. Take the leap from Dungen’s self-titled 2001 debut, featuring long psilocybic exploratory tracks of aural tomfoolery, to next year’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStadsvandringar\u003c\/em\u003e, which found Ejstes coming to grips with the language of rock. It all converged with the zeitgeist that is Dungen’s third album, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTa Det Lugt\u003c\/em\u003e, an album that ignited the blogosphere so that it glowed like the aurora borealis. Not content to revel in such accolades, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-tio-bitar\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-tio-bitar\/\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTio Bitar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e flashed the band’s pop smarts as well as their incandescent freakouts while \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-4\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-4\/\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e put the band’s cohesiveness on display, at once gorgeous and biting.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFor those who don’t have their English-Svenska Dictionary close at hand when plunking\/ popping\/ importing \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen’s\u003c\/a\u003e sixth album\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Skit I Allt\u003c\/em\u003e into their respective LP\/CD\/ MP3 listening devices, let’s make sure the title doesn’t get lost in translation: “Fuck All.” Really? Should we be expecting a nihilistic punk album? “For me, it means ‘Don’t give a shit, forget about it, just go ahead and do it,'” laughs Ejstes. “\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSkit I Allt\u003c\/em\u003e is about a certain feeling: you’re with your friends and mates, all hanging out till 6 in the morning. You’re the last one left at the party and you call this person that you want to be with. They’re asleep, but they still say, ‘Ah, fuck it, come over.’ It’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethat\u003c\/em\u003e feeling.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJust don’t think that with \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSkit I Allt\u003c\/em\u003e the band is reducible to any one feeling. Or musical genre. At ease with effervescent pop, third-eye popping psychedelia, heavy rock, spider-web folk and breezy jazz, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen’s\u003c\/a\u003e dynamism astounds throughout. Rather than remain only Ejstes’ studio vision, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e is a muscular full band now. Guitarist Reine Fiske, bassist Mattias Gustavsson, and drummer Johan Holmegard are fully integrated into Ejstes’ vision of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e: “Whether you perceive \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e as a band or as me and my songs and my productions, the band is something totally free. They take the songs somewhere else.” Take “Soda,” which moves from gentle finger-picked guitar to a rollicking beat that makes the song gush forth in all its glory. With the sumptuous opener “Vara Snabb,” \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\"\u003eDungen’s\u003c\/a\u003e jazz chops are evident. From there, the band reveals the aching, handclap-propelled, strings-laced ballad “Min Anda Van.” Ejstes confesses: “It translates as ‘My Only Friend.’ It’s dedicated to a friend who got very ill and it’s my most personal song yet.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eWhile the album is stuffed with concise songs (nothing running beyond five minutes) there are already candidates aplenty here for \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen’s\u003c\/a\u003e live blotter-fueled sonic maelstroms. ““Hogdalstoppen” (named for a massive junkyard near Ejstes’ flat) is already a massive instrumental track that we’ve started expanding between 5 and 15 minutes,” Ejstes says. Perhaps the instrumental “Blandband” (trans. “Mixtape”) exemplifies the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e philosophy best. A mélange of bright piano chords, snaking lead guitar, and weightless woodwinds, it twists and turns like a forest path. The song was inspired, says Ejstes, “by a friend made me a cassette recently and I missed that antiquated way of listening. I like finding out about music fast but at the same time, I like listening to whole albums. I conceive \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e music in that same way: side one, side two, a journey.” Enjoy the trip.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47589447565613,"sku":"184923100617","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/5802\/8845\/files\/ReleaseFormat-1025072-165004.jpg?v=1700163029"},{"product_id":"dungen-tio-bitar-184923122015","title":"Dungen - Tio Bitar Standard Black Vinyl","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnly available in North America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFrom the moment siren-like screeching descends into the guitar-furious melody of the “intro” track, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansummer.com\/artist\/dungen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDungen\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTio Bitar\u003c\/em\u003e embraces with a warmth that transcends feeling, space, and time. It takes the listener on a journey through a utopia where the sounds of the guitar, drum, bass, organ, violin, and flute are drawn to dance together in melody around Ejstes’ hypnotizing vocal force. Before leaving the listener alone in the world again, Tio Bitar floats away on the wings of “En Gång I År Kom Det En Tår” with the melancholic hum of a flute that grabs the listener just before the piano drifts back into reality.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47589447663917,"sku":"184923122015","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/5802\/8845\/files\/ReleaseFormat-1025064-164999.jpg?v=1700163425"},{"product_id":"dungen-4-184923000818","title":"Dungen - 4 CD","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-details\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"description product-description module\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description-wrapper\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003carticle class=\"description-article article-blurb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDungen's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efourth studio album extends the acclaimed Swedish outfit's sound past psychedelia into something far more rare. Moving beyond mere stylistic concerns,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efinds Gustav Ejstes' focus on the extremes of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Dungen'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003es\u003c\/span\u003e sound separating into two entities. Blazing, raw guitar workouts have their own time and place, but now, so do stirringly orchestrated, jazz-cooled compositions with cinematic undertones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBandleader Gustav Ejstes has made many allusions to his creative process as it likens to that of a hip-hop producer. On\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4\u003c\/i\u003e, that process is more evident than ever, both in the feel of each piece, and in the sense of intuition and control within the members of the group. New drummer Johan Holmegard joins guitarist Reine Fiske and bassist Mattias Gustavsson, while Ejstes steps away from guitar for the entire album, focusing on the piano as his lead instrument. Together, they have honed a classic and seamless sound, constructed with lavish studio flourishes and moving, narrative arrangements, and yet able to toughen up to tear veins of fierce blues-psych instrumentals up from the surface.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe ten tracks on\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomprise\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Dungen's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea most concentrated effort, beats surging forth and atmosphere changing as their sound continues to evolve. Every song here runs under five minutes, pushing the group to introduce confident melodies and arresting ambiance in tighter frameworks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"track-list-container module\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47589447696685,"sku":"184923000818","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/5802\/8845\/files\/302224.jpg?v=1700162062"},{"product_id":"dungen-allas-sak-184923120721","title":"Dungen - Allas Sak CD","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAllas Sak\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. It’s a short phrase with enormous implications.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThose two Swedish words translate loosely into English as “everyone’s thing” or maybe “anyone’s thing.” They not only provide the title for\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Dungen's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003elatest collection of sophisticated psychedelic rock, but explains how the band works creatively and collaboratively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I was told by a friend once that as a songwriter and as a musical artist, you have to understand that as soon as the music leaves your body, it is no longer strictly yours,” explains Gustav Ejstes, Dungen’s mastermind and main songwriter. “The listener also owns it and filters it through their personality, their thoughts and feelings.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn other words, the music is everyone’s thing. It belongs to the band and to whoever hears it, which means that everyone is empowered to decipher the Swedish-language lyrics for themselves, to locate their own stories in the magisterial instrumental jams, to make all of this mean whatever they need it to mean. For Dungen, this communion between artist and audience is a beautiful and necessary process that makes the music mean more, not less. It becomes, in a sense, infinite. “These songs are my everyday experiences, my thoughts and stories from the life I live,” says Ejstes. “I hope people can create their own stories around the music and maybe we can make music together, the listener and I.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEjstes has been making music—at first for himself, then eventually and inevitably for all of us—for nearly twenty years. Growing up in rural Sweden, he became obsessed with hip-hop and sampling. Digging through crates and searching for obscure source material provided him with an informal education in ‘60s pop and psychedelia, and soon he learned to play the bits and pieces he was sampling. He took up guitar and bass, drums and keyboard and even flute, then took to his grandmother’s basement to put it all on tape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Ejstes recorded his first album, he released it in 2001 under the name\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Dungen\u003c\/span\u003e, which means “The Grove”— a nod to his village upbringing or perhaps a deeper reference to American folk songs like “Shady Grove.” While his music has routinely garnered comparisons to acts like Love, Pink Floyd, the Electric Prunes, and Os Mutantes, he has always emphasized a strong sense of songcraft. The music has deep roots in history, but it blooms in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith 2004’s breakout\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTa Det Lugnt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDungen garnered an avid fanbase outside of Scandinavia. Pitchfork lauded the album with a 9.3 and asserted that Ejstes’s “songs are painstakingly arranged with a sense of depth, gradations, and tonal three-dimensionality redolent of something as off the charts as\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePet Sounds\u003c\/em\u003e.” Only on the road did Dungen blossom into a full band, with a rotation of musicians joining Ejstes onstage and eventually coalescing into a fully democratic band that includes Reine Fiske on guitar, Mattias Gustavsson on bass, and Johan Holmegard on drums. Starting with 2007’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTio Bitar\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand 2009’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4\u003c\/em\u003e, the band members helped Ejstes realize his own vision while adding flourishes of their own. As a result, Dungen grew into something bigger and more formidable: one of the best and most consistently inventive psych rock bands in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the height of their powers, however, the band took a step back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt’s been five years since the last Dungen album, 2010’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-skit-i-allt\/\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-skit-i-allt\/\"\u003eSkit I Allt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, which is by far the longest interval between releases for a band that proved especially prolific and inspired during the 2000s. “We have all been away during this period for different reasons, playing music in different projects,” says Ejstes. “I have been writing songs in the meantime, so the actual recording process has been pretty short.” During the interim, several members of the band released albums as the Amazing, including 2012’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGentle Stream\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand 2015’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePicture You.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eEjstes himself co-founded the Swedish supergroup Amason, which includes members of Idiot Wind, Little Majorette, and Miike Snow. They released their debut,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSky City\u003c\/em\u003e, earlier this year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAllas Sak\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003epicks up where Dungen’s previous album left off, but somehow it sounds bolder and livelier, feistier yet more focused. The four of them jam with greater purpose and principle on songs like the otherworldly instrumental “Franks Kaktus” and the stately “En Gång Om Året,” while the prismatic “Flickor Och Pojkar” and closer “Sova” reveal subtle nuances in the band’s arrangements. Listening becomes an especially galvanizing experience, heady and enlightening. If psychedelic music has often been associated with drug use, for Dungen music itself is the drug: the most effective vehicle for transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe band brought in “a good friend of ours” named Mattias Glavå to produce the record. In addition to helming records for the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Sambassadeur, and the Amazing, Glavå worked with Dungen on 2005’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStadsvandringar\u003c\/em\u003e, which made these sessions a reunion of sorts. “Mattias is a true wizard of analog sound engineering, but he’s more than a technique nerd,” says Ejstes. “He’s the ultimate hand between my vision of a sound and reality.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGlavå suggested the band work out songs before they entered the studio, rather than writing during the sessions. It was a different way of working, but one that Ejstes found invigorating. “He suggested we come to his studio with finished songs, and we did live takes directly to tape—the old-school way. It has truly been a quite different experience from the earlier records.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAllas Sak\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about everyday matters: family, friends, the fine texture of life. Common but never mundane, these subjects anchor the music in the here and now, while the music lends a certain grandeur to ordinary moments. “Lyrics are very important to me,” says Ejstes. “We know a lot of people who don’t speak Swedish who love the music anyway. Music comes first every time. I think it could be wordless if the moods in the music take you somewhere, but often the melodies are attached to words that came up the first time they were played.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAgain, it comes back to the listener. Even as the band continues to grow, the listener remains a constant collaborator, not only inspiring new songs but rejuvenating old ones. “I can definitely feel a new significance in some of our older songs, mainly because of the people we’ve met and the stories about their own experiences with the music.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47589447827757,"sku":"184923120721","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/5802\/8845\/files\/ReleaseFormat-1025054-164992.jpg?v=1700162268"},{"product_id":"dungen-allas-sak-184923120714","title":"Dungen - Allas Sak Standard Black Vinyl","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAllas Sak\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. It’s a short phrase with enormous implications.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThose two Swedish words translate loosely into English as “everyone’s thing” or maybe “anyone’s thing.” They not only provide the title for\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Dungen's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003elatest collection of sophisticated psychedelic rock, but explains how the band works creatively and collaboratively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I was told by a friend once that as a songwriter and as a musical artist, you have to understand that as soon as the music leaves your body, it is no longer strictly yours,” explains Gustav Ejstes, Dungen’s mastermind and main songwriter. “The listener also owns it and filters it through their personality, their thoughts and feelings.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn other words, the music is everyone’s thing. It belongs to the band and to whoever hears it, which means that everyone is empowered to decipher the Swedish-language lyrics for themselves, to locate their own stories in the magisterial instrumental jams, to make all of this mean whatever they need it to mean. For Dungen, this communion between artist and audience is a beautiful and necessary process that makes the music mean more, not less. It becomes, in a sense, infinite. “These songs are my everyday experiences, my thoughts and stories from the life I live,” says Ejstes. “I hope people can create their own stories around the music and maybe we can make music together, the listener and I.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEjstes has been making music—at first for himself, then eventually and inevitably for all of us—for nearly twenty years. Growing up in rural Sweden, he became obsessed with hip-hop and sampling. Digging through crates and searching for obscure source material provided him with an informal education in ‘60s pop and psychedelia, and soon he learned to play the bits and pieces he was sampling. He took up guitar and bass, drums and keyboard and even flute, then took to his grandmother’s basement to put it all on tape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Ejstes recorded his first album, he released it in 2001 under the name\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Dungen\u003c\/span\u003e, which means “The Grove”— a nod to his village upbringing or perhaps a deeper reference to American folk songs like “Shady Grove.” While his music has routinely garnered comparisons to acts like Love, Pink Floyd, the Electric Prunes, and Os Mutantes, he has always emphasized a strong sense of songcraft. The music has deep roots in history, but it blooms in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith 2004’s breakout\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTa Det Lugnt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDungen garnered an avid fanbase outside of Scandinavia. Pitchfork lauded the album with a 9.3 and asserted that Ejstes’s “songs are painstakingly arranged with a sense of depth, gradations, and tonal three-dimensionality redolent of something as off the charts as\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePet Sounds\u003c\/em\u003e.” Only on the road did Dungen blossom into a full band, with a rotation of musicians joining Ejstes onstage and eventually coalescing into a fully democratic band that includes Reine Fiske on guitar, Mattias Gustavsson on bass, and Johan Holmegard on drums. Starting with 2007’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTio Bitar\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand 2009’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4\u003c\/em\u003e, the band members helped Ejstes realize his own vision while adding flourishes of their own. As a result, Dungen grew into something bigger and more formidable: one of the best and most consistently inventive psych rock bands in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the height of their powers, however, the band took a step back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt’s been five years since the last Dungen album, 2010’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-skit-i-allt\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/shop.mexicansummer.com\/product\/dungen-skit-i-allt\/\"\u003eSkit I Allt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, which is by far the longest interval between releases for a band that proved especially prolific and inspired during the 2000s. “We have all been away during this period for different reasons, playing music in different projects,” says Ejstes. “I have been writing songs in the meantime, so the actual recording process has been pretty short.” During the interim, several members of the band released albums as the Amazing, including 2012’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGentle Stream\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand 2015’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePicture You.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eEjstes himself co-founded the Swedish supergroup Amason, which includes members of Idiot Wind, Little Majorette, and Miike Snow. They released their debut,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSky City\u003c\/em\u003e, earlier this year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAllas Sak\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003epicks up where Dungen’s previous album left off, but somehow it sounds bolder and livelier, feistier yet more focused. The four of them jam with greater purpose and principle on songs like the otherworldly instrumental “Franks Kaktus” and the stately “En Gång Om Året,” while the prismatic “Flickor Och Pojkar” and closer “Sova” reveal subtle nuances in the band’s arrangements. Listening becomes an especially galvanizing experience, heady and enlightening. If psychedelic music has often been associated with drug use, for Dungen music itself is the drug: the most effective vehicle for transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe band brought in “a good friend of ours” named Mattias Glavå to produce the record. In addition to helming records for the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Sambassadeur, and the Amazing, Glavå worked with Dungen on 2005’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStadsvandringar\u003c\/em\u003e, which made these sessions a reunion of sorts. “Mattias is a true wizard of analog sound engineering, but he’s more than a technique nerd,” says Ejstes. “He’s the ultimate hand between my vision of a sound and reality.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGlavå suggested the band work out songs before they entered the studio, rather than writing during the sessions. It was a different way of working, but one that Ejstes found invigorating. “He suggested we come to his studio with finished songs, and we did live takes directly to tape—the old-school way. It has truly been a quite different experience from the earlier records.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAllas Sak\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about everyday matters: family, friends, the fine texture of life. Common but never mundane, these subjects anchor the music in the here and now, while the music lends a certain grandeur to ordinary moments. “Lyrics are very important to me,” says Ejstes. “We know a lot of people who don’t speak Swedish who love the music anyway. Music comes first every time. I think it could be wordless if the moods in the music take you somewhere, but often the melodies are attached to words that came up the first time they were played.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAgain, it comes back to the listener. Even as the band continues to grow, the listener remains a constant collaborator, not only inspiring new songs but rejuvenating old ones. “I can definitely feel a new significance in some of our older songs, mainly because of the people we’ve met and the stories about their own experiences with the music.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47589447893293,"sku":"184923120714","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/5802\/8845\/files\/ReleaseFormat-1025053-164990.jpg?v=1700162404"},{"product_id":"dungen-dungen-live-184923128215","title":"Dungen - Dungen Live Standard Black Vinyl","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003carticle class=\"article-decorated\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThose who’ve been fortunate enough to catch Dungen in a live setting, are aware of the transformative experience in store, how they stitch together a fine and fiery tapestry of song. Dungen’s new album Live is the golden, glimmering thread holding it all together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLive is Dungen in their own land, saving up stunning solos and fiery interplay for their home team, elements of their farthest-out and most inspired moments assembled into one piece of continuous music by producer Matthias Glava. Dungen worked with Glava on their second album Stadsvandringar, aka 2, when the band was just gaining traction in Sweden and a bit beyond. Glava returned to help Dungen capture the beautiful, crisp stillness of their 2015 return Allas Sak, and stayed on through the creation of Haxän, their interpretive soundtrack to the silent film The Adventures of Prince Achmed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt’s right around Glava’s return that the source material for Live was recorded, in late November 2015, at Stora Teatern in Gothenburg and Victoriateatern in Malmö. Joined by Swedish sax deity Jonas Kullhammar (who brought his skills to Allas Sak), these were undoubtedly some massive experiences. Live drops us into moments where Dungen’s right at the edge of the cliff, right at the point where they’re getting out of the time machine to bust into John Anthony’s studio right when Affinity is cutting their album for Vertigo, right at the point where you discover the break on a record that snaps into place over some hip hop track you’ve been listening to for years, and you play it over and over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEntirely instrumental (including a footstompin’ cover of Doug Jerebine’s “Ain’t So Hard to Tell” – check with our buds over at Drag City for the full story on that one), Live showcases what Dungen does best: create a vibe where none existed, build a mood out of circumstance, attack the music with a fan’s soul and a master’s scorching virtuosity. It extends moments out of their catalogue that seemed like they were already explored and breathes new life into them, at times graceful, at others rambunctious, and sometimes a little of both. It stirs memories of when those first import copies of Ta det lungt hit the record store, how we listened in awe and watched the customers turn around, that first shock of awareness, that anxiety over trying to take home what appeared to be the last copy on the shelf before someone else with the same idea beat you to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFans of Reine rippers need look no further. His classic burnt guitar tone and masterful touch is on full display within Live, as is his more recent propensity to build vibes with the Mellotron. Matthias and Johan are locked in as usual, the backbone, wildly swinging in the way they do. Gustav seems to be peaking here, directing currents of energy and melody with the precision of an air traffic controller. 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It’s pieces of everything you know about them, reinterpreted out of love and respect for the craft. All things that are unmistakably part of what puts Dungen in the top tiers of latter-day psychedelic soul expression. 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