Anybody have this album? I've been listening to it a lot lately after catching them at Siren fest. It'll be nice for it to get a proper US release finally.

riyl: manitoba, shins, hopelandic

i like it a lot. thanks to neuro & neuro for reminding me of its existence.

seriously. i can't imagine there are many people on here that wouldn't like this. it rocks, it's jazzy, it's fucking swedish.

http://obner.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1616&highlight=dungen

Same thread title even.

I believe this will be the third time this record has had some kind of release in the past year. JUSTLY SO. There's the import, the official American release several months ago and now the new one with the bonus cd. They played for the first time in SF a couple of weeks ago, but regretfully missed it cuz I was out of town.

fwiw - I think I may have been the only one who had this record as my OBNER #1 in 2004.

who?

Caputo lubs de Dungen.

funny...i brought and listened to this at work today. it still rocks.

this album is very impressive.

if you read the review on it in this coming weeks' billboard, you'll know my full opinion.

My Top Five for 2004:


1. P.J. Harvey – Uh Huh Her
Bile is both sexy and timeless. Head banging is the same gesture as nodding out, only with a little more overt anger and purpose. Probably a quirky choice for number one, but after all the nu-folk and ambient cerebral electronics and sappy vegan rock and Ibiza- pop in my music this year, I needed red meat and PJ always has delivered the raw flesh. Thank you PJ, thank you rock and roll. Pour that fucking salt of the earth in my natal wound. “Mommy put your needle down.”

2. Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
Short sweet and sour songs. Sometimes throwaway sketches, lazy or ephemeral ideas for music. Psychic placeholders. Vocals as calm and friendly as your favorite vacation. On the beach after the destruction of commercial music… ambitious post-apocalypse beach boys with secret strains of Nino Rota. La Dolce Vita as Baghdad glows in suicidal bomb light and the Dow flatlines.

3. The Arcade – Funeral
Kitchen rock. A compendium of pop skills-sets. You name the favorite, and you’ll hear it “quoted” within three tracks. A dash of Bowie and a splash of Pavement., though just using the language they grew up with…refreshingly unassuming while being derivative . A brilliant work, irresistible, cagey, classic pop sensibilities and drive. I lose interest 2/3 of the way through every song. Astonishingly promising music that teases and turns itself off like an iron left on. So gifted at re-creating the past of my favorite music, the songs tire me. A spectacular debut. A pot begging to be watched .

4. Blithe Sons – Arm of the Starfish
Analog ambient. Californian as Mendocino fog. Heads bent over guitars, shoe-gazing in reverence more than method. Strumming to synchronize your pulse. Continually and earnestly seeking some kind of recognizable musical structure mostly without success. Repetitive to no purpose. Playable late at night or in crises… sonic laudanum conjured in the Eternal VW bus once again stalled in the underpass. I smell sage.

5. Dungen – Ta Det Lugnt
Scandanavian psychedelic and unkempt. Lots of layers for varied weather. Everytime you listen you hear a wholly different kind of music being put on. Adolescent and stoned, collegiate and studious, obsessed and inevitable. I sense I am probably lucky I can’t understand Swedish, the mystery of the singer’s stories are best left there. Best tribute to the adenoids ever. I don’t know whether it is a soundtrack to a silly Roger Corman goth horror flick or Danzig’s garage tapes or re-discovered studio masters to a long lost Arthur Lee trip to and in Oslo.

yes, yes, but the re-issue with wide distribution came out THIS year

As much as I try to like these guys, I just find then to be very boring.

countdown to mlle_xix . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1

find it extremely hilarious when these don't get fulfulled.

that is all.