For Dungen fans, it was starting to feel like May 15 would never come. After a record like 2005's Ta Det Lugnt, Gustav Ejstes and his fellow Swedes left all of us wanting more. The album was so good, that even if a follow up surfaced a week later it would have seemed like it took too long.
Finally, May 15 is around the corner and Dungen's fifth album, entitled Tio Bitar, will be available for mass consumption. I can tell you that if you loved Ta Det Lugnt, you will not be disappointed. What is disappointing are the rumors that the band will not be touring to support the record, nor will frontman and producer Ejstes be doing much, if any press. One can only imagine their label, Kemado Records, is overjoyed at the possibility of the band doing so little to promote the album stateside.
Billboard caught up with the "other" guitarist in the band, Reine Fiske, who revealed that listeners may find Tio Bitar a bit more accessible than its predecessor.
"It's shorter [and] more 'song-based' to some extent. But not as a commercial move, I assure you. Maybe it´s a bit more anarchic at times, almost in some kind of decadent and ridiculous way. Some songs were just shaped from various weird, exhausted moments, often late at night, a little dozed on wine or beer."
When asked about the band's lack of tour plans, Fiske noted that Ejstes is "somewhere in the woods, writing and recording more." If anyone can lure the man out of hiding and get him on a plane, please do so soon; he's going to have a lot of rabid Americans on his ass after they hear the record.
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