Dungen released the lush Psych-Pop ballad “Höstens Färger,” the final track previewing their first album in seven years “En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog” out on October 07, 2022 via Mexican Summer. Its title translates to ”The colors of the fall” and arrives alongside a video featuring Dungen frontman Gustav Ejstes, watch it through the YouTube player below:
Video director Isidor Estrada Nyqvist explains: “Like all great artists, Gustav is a bit on his own planet, operating outside of the ‘normal’ sphere of life. He sees things from a totally different perspective, and he uses his music to help others see it too. Gustav just does his beautiful thing, like a kid playing, and that’s what I wanted to portray with this video.“
Gustav Ejstes has always been on his way to someplace else. The Swedish musician has been making records as Dungen for two decades now, and while he’s lauded as one of the sharpest and most adventurous musicians in Psychedelic music since 2004’s breakthrough Ta det lungt, for Ejstes Psych has always been only a starting point. Or maybe it’s something more like an ethos—Psych with its promise of exploration, the way it prioritizes seeking out new sounds, of leaving the old self behind, of setting into the ether to see what else might be out there.
En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog (One is Too Much and a Thousand is Never Enough) is the first Dungen record since 2016’s Häxan and the first proper Dungen studio album since Allas Sak was released in 2015. If we’re thinking of Psych Rock as a genre, with its readymade tropes—fuzz guitars, shimmering harmonies, pastoral textures—it’s possibly the least psychedelic record Ejstes has ever made. But if Psych is really about transcending what’s come before in favor of new ways of seeing and hearing, then the opposite is true.
And that means En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog goes further out than any Dungen record before it. There are classic Psych rave-ups, of course, and the kind of brilliant vocal harmonies Ejstes has long made his trademark. There are soft, shuffling grooves that transform into wide-eyed cosmic revelations. There are intimate songs guided by Ejstes and his piano, which he plays so gently it sounds like he’s trying not to wake someone in the next room.
Purchase the album on Bandcamp: https://dungen.bandcamp.com/album/en-r-f-r-mycket-och-tusen-aldrig-nog
Tracklist:
01. Skövde 04:20
02. Om Det Finns Något Som Du Vill Fråga Mig
03. Nattens Sista Strimma Ljus
04. Möbler
05. Höstens Färger
06. Var Har Du Varit?
07. Klockan Slår Den Är Mycket Nu
08. En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog
09. Om Natten
Dungen Tour Dates:
1/24 – Stavanger, NO – Folken
1/25 – Bergen, NO – USF Røkeriet
1/26 – Oslo, NO – Rockefeller
1/27 – Gothenburg, SE – Pustervik
1/28 – Linköping, SE – Skylten
2/1 – Helsinki, FI – Tavastia
2/2 – Tampere, FI – Tavara-Asema
2/10 – Uppsala, SE – Katalin
2/11 – Stockholm, SE – Berns
2/17 – Malmö, SE – Plan B
2/18 – Copenhagen, DK – Hotel Cecil