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If this album is less immediately impressive than its predecessor it’s because apart from tightening their arrangements the sound is still exactly what you expect.
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Under The RadarIn the end the record comes across as too much of a repeat. [#17, p.84]
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The influences may be antediluvian but the spirit is timeless.
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By no means is this a bad album, it is just one that in the modern day holds little relevance and offers nothing significant.
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Tio Bitar is Dungen's most realized album yet and should resonate with anyone who likes rock music at all.
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If TaDet Lugnt was pristine portraiture, carefully aligned and composed, then Tio Bitar is the off-the-cuff action shot – freely flowing and effortlessly jammed, its hair ruffled and with a face in need of a shave.
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It isn’t the sort of artistic statement that promises to change anyone’s life, but it’s no less a great work of escapist art, the sort of essential record I’d pick for any hypothetical list of desert island necessities.
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The amount of change from Ta Det Lugnt to Tio Bitar may be minimal, but this superb new album is no less rewarding.
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Dim-witted 1970s rock, that washed-out old dinosaur, is the drearily dominant theme.
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BillboardAlthough the arrangements remain impressive, there are moments when it feels as though Dungen should stick with a quicker pace. [26 May 2007]
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Its few missteps are well balanced by a handful of blissful, seismic bright pockets.
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Dungen are the band The Mars Volta wish they were.
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A well-considered 10-track song cycle of mostly shorter and tighter compositions that combine the catchy, guitar-oriented pop aspects of Ta Det Lugnt ... with the darker freak-folk stylings of 2002's Stadsvandringar.
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Once again, English speakers need not understand a lick of Swedish to enjoy the music's universally mind-expanding effects.
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As good as 'Tio Bitar' is, it's actually a weaker album than 'Ta Det Lungt' in some respects.
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FilterIn comparison to... Ta Det Lungt, Tio Bitar trades much of the immediacy for multi-dimensional empiricism and fringe atmosphere. [#25, p.98]
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Tio Bitar finds Dungen streamlining its expansive pop-psych attack with a set of jams that hit with more clarity and intensity than ever.
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SpinA subtle hallucinatory pastiche. [Jun 2007, p.92]
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"Tio Bitar" is an excellent follow-up to "Ta Det Lugnt," offering another far-out trip courtesy of Ejstes and his musical magic.
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UncutDecidedly heady stuff. [Jul 2007, p.100]
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Certainly few guitarists playing today evoke the kind of mad intensity on display here, but like the Comets on Fire, the whole package rarely comes off as good as you think it should.
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The Swedes ignite right from the "Intro."
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A tight, orderly marriage of the pastoral and the psychotropic -- plenty precise, but short on soul.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 11
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Mixed: 0 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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NodonMay 15, 2007It's grewing on you!
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TylerMay 2, 2007Solid from start to finish. Nearly on par with Ta Det Lungt.
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JeffPApr 27, 2007