{"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","url":"https:\/\/mexicansummer.myshopify.com\/products\/dungen-skit-i-allt-184923100617","provider":"Mexican Summer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}