Photo By Jeff Cowan
I stopped having a “favorite band” when I started to take this whole writing about music thing seriously. It seemed a relic of childhood absolutism, where there is A FAVORITE BASEBALL PLAYER (Eric Davis), FOOD (McDonald’s hamburgers), LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST (Tom Snyder, be thy name).
But for this week–at least until Akron/Family comes to town on Saturday–Dungen is my favorite band. As you might infer from the title, my Times review of Wednesday’s Troubadour performance analyzes the band through the narrow prism of psychedelic music. However, they’re much more than the sum of guitar solos and Swedish chef crooning. While you don’t necessarily need drugs to enjoy their music, Dungen is the best advertisement for narcotics since The Never Ending Story.
LA Times: Dungen’s Redefinition of Psychedelia
Below the jump: music from both Dungen and their excellent Swedish psychedelic forebears, plus a link to the entire photo gallery.
Complete Gallery of Jeff Cowan’s Dungen Photos
Download:
MP3: Dungen-”Samtidigt”
MP3: Dungen-”Satt At Se”
MP3: Dungen-”Gor Det Nu”
MP3: Träd Gräs Och Stenar-“I Ljuset Av Din Dag” (Left-Click)
MP3: Träd Gräs Och Stenar-“Var vila” (Left-Click)
MP3: International Harvester-“Sommarlåten [The Summer Song]”
MP3: Pärson Sound-From Tunis To India In Fullmoon (On Testosterone) (Left-Click)
