More than forty years on from the Summer Of Love, those good vibrations continue to inspire musicians across the globe.
Dungen are a Swedish collective, who seem to have little else to do with their time than swallow handfuls of hallucinogenics and craft bizarre new music. In part echoing the sounds of the late 60s, the band’s broad palette swoops to take in jazz, folk and more.
Yet this isn’t some attempt at a psych revival. Rather, Dungen’s efforts are based on renewal – finding their own identity by slicing apart standard templates on what can be achieved within psychedelic music.
Based in their own Swedish studio, Dungen use their native tongue. Now, our knowledge of Scandinavian languages isn’t quite as good as it could be, but some things are just universal. Moving between quite pop influenced fare and some ferocious jazz inspired freak outs, the collective seem to evolve quite organically between tracks.
New album ‘Skit I Allt’ is out today (September 20th) on Subliminal Sounds, and is one of the band’s most complete offerings to date. Nothing quite so predictable as a concept album, Dungen appear to simply hit a rich vein of songwriting and started digging – resulting in a muscular, cohesive collection.
Taken from the new album, ‘Marken Lag Stilla’ is a refreshing blend of psych-pop which moves well beyond their influences.
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