The Bird and the Dungen Appreciation Society

But first: check it! Jack White and Brendan Benson are doing a Lennon/McCartney thing.

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Yeah? Screw you too buddy. Bite it.

The History of the Middle Finger

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If:

a.) you’re a vinyl collector, and

b.) you have twenty-three bucks lying around gathering dust, and

c.) you don’t have a philosophical problem with spending that amount of scratch on a single spinning disc, and

d.) you’re intrigued by music sung in the Swedish tongue...

...well then you could do much worse than hightailin’ it over to Forced Exposure RIGHT NOW* and snagging one of their last remaining copies of Dungen’s sophomore LP, 2002's Stadsvandringar, aka Dungen II. It’s just as mind-blowing, perhaps more so, as/than 2004's Ta Det Lugnt, the latest, and most deservedly hyped long-player out of the Dungen camp, and it comes housed in beautiful gatefold with pictures of the gorgeous young twentysomething Gustav Ejstes. Limited to 500 copies; absolutely guaranteed to draw huge sums of money on ebay in the not-too-distant-future.

I couldn't put it any better than my friend thenoiseboy did in his spot-on write-up of Ta Det Lugnt, which equally applies to II:

"This is the closest we’re likely to come in modern times to re-envisioning the radical sense of freedom the rock and roll community experienced as the ‘60s bled into the ‘70s and one drug gave way to another. That a 20-something kid from Sweden has tapped into this kind of emotion and captured it in a recording that sounds of that time is...frighteningly genius."

Check out Dungen’s web site here, sound files here, and don’t forget to skim the guestbook for fawning accolades from all over the world, if you don’t want to take my word for it. If you max to the bottom of the page and scroll up, you will notice that nearly every post to the guestbook is in Swedish until late September/early October 2004. This would be just after the infamous Pitchfork review came out that unleashed this enormous tidal wave of Dungen appreciation stateside.

Holy crap, Ta Det is out on vinyl now too!!! Gotta run!

*Also available on compact disc at greatly reduced rates, for those so inclined.

N/P The Gris Gris – s/t