Dungen : Tio Bitar

I don't understand Swedish, but it's clear to anyone that these guys rock.
- Mark Queree, 10/09/2007, United Kingdom

Full title is: Tio Bitar

On Dungen's new album, Tio Bitar, you hear a band that's positively recharged itself after riding the waves of below-ground press hype & world exposure following the release of their third record - a latter-day classic, Ta Det Lugnt. Gustav Ejstes, Dungen's founder and principal member, made the new album - his fourth, a sweeping, surprising display of psychedelic rock, presented with a bright, avid confidence largely by himself once again. Gustav wrote the songs, and played most of the instruments on his own, with assistance on guitar from Reine Fiske, whose sensibly expressive soloing follows the path of Swedish psychedelic guitar greats.The character of these songs suggests a new, unburdened direction for the belabored concept of jamming, one that hems in the melodies, borrowing some of their phrasings but spinning off into lucid counterpart, all anchored by the bass, drums, and organ. When vocals as before, sung entirely in Swedish or a flute appear, they're diverging out to a third melody, still safely within the frame, in tune with each part.