FISTFULAYEN

Finally an album capable of getting me off my ass and updating this blog. The album is “Ta Det Lungt” (which I hear translates to “Take It Easy”) by Sweden’s Dungen. Holy hell. What an album. Think of the melody, production, and heaviness of Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold The World” mixed with the prog of “Tago Mago”-era Can. All amazingly instrumented and pulled together with appealingly retro (but not overly so e.g. The Bees) production, well-sequenced, and packaged beautifully. What fucking more could you want?

Dungen is the brainchild of teenage hip hop head Gustav Ejstes, who, after digging through crates of Swedish folk rock for a few years, played with sampling for a while and then decided to quit being such a pussy and learn how to play all the instruments he was hearing instead of just jacking for beats. How’s that for post-modern? Quite a bio this weirdo has. God bless him, he’s made my day every day for a week straight.

Of course nothing this good would ever be available courtesy any of the five major labels, so if you want this bitch you’ll need to get it from Forced Exposure, who is importing it here in the states (UPDATE, looks like Amazon UK has it for ten pounds). The record label site has a few audio clips from the record. Not for the feint of Swedish. All others, buy buy buy.