Words by Riley Fitzgerald (@RILEY.NF]
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For those unmailed, Dungen (pronounced Doong-yen) is a Swedish outfit, which maintains a small but dedicated global following.

Amongst their fans is Tame Impala‘s Kevin Parker, who has in past cited the band as an act which informed his own early sonic trajectory.

“Dungen I’ve loved for years,” he once shared. “The guy that… the guy behind it, Gustav [Ejstes] has been a big inspiration for me.”

POND‘s Nick Allbrook is also a fan.

“Dungen are like heroes of ours from way, way back,” He shared in an interview with Australian publication Music Feeds, “when me and Jay [Watson] and [Shiny] Joe [Ryan] and Kevin [Parker] were all in a sharehouse together and when discovering new music meant coming across it in the CD shop.”

With likeminded acts POND and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard both having recently released live albums, it isn’t too much of a surprise that Swedes Dungen has also decided to release a live offering of their own.

“Live is Dungen in their own land,” label Mexican Summer writes, “saving up stunning solos and fiery interplay for their home team, elements of their farthest-out and most inspired moments assembled into one piece of continuous music.”

“The source material for Live,” they continue, “was recorded in late November 2015 at Stora Teatern in Gothenburg and Victoriateatern in Malmö. Joined by Swedish sax deity Jonas Kullhammar (who brought his skills to Allas Sak), these were undoubtedly some massive experiences. Live drops us into moments where Dungen’s right at the edge of the cliff, right at the point where they’re getting out of the time machine to bust into John Anthony’s studio right when Affinity is cutting their album for Vertigo, right at the point where you discover the break on a record that snaps into place over some hip hop track you’ve been listening to for years, and you play it over and over.”