Pitchfork's David Nadelle reports: A world without downloading seems like ages ago, doesn't it? Before all of this present amenity, it was commonplace to hear of some supposedly mind-blowing band like Dungen issuing albums in distant lands, and instead of going without, you would have to either concede to paying the music store smarty pants for your "only available on import" copy, or you would have to mail order it for triple an amount not dissimilar to the gross national product of many developing nations. You couldn't possibly risk looking like a chump, so you'd shell out the exorbitant funds in either case, and justify it among friends with the requisite sneering bravado, "Pffft...yeah, I got that...on import". Then you would purposely not tape the album for these friends, thus crushing their already pitiable existence in grand style. Wait, that last part may have just been characteristic of this sadistic writer here at Pitchfork.

Now the web helps out curious music addicts everywhere to at least hear all this wonderful music. But for those who must have the album in their hands, attentive labels seem to be delighting fans by issuing more and more albums that are truly remarkable, but for one reason or another haven't had a proper release in a given country. Dungen's Ta Det Lugnt is such an album. It has taken almost a year, but the adventurous folk-rock-psych-whatever masterwork by Gustav Ejstes will get its U.S. release this summer after a heap of impassioned reviews and strong word of mouth.

Ultra-saavy New York label Kemado will have the honor of re-releasing Ta Det Lugnt in the U.S. on August 2, just in time for the band to return here shortly afterwards to play some soon-to-be-announced dates this summer. Better news for Dungen devotees is that the album will include a bonus disc of unspecified, unreleased songs that may include new recordings, select tracks culled from two limited albums originally released by Sweden's Subliminal Sounds, or perhaps the cunning three chapter song-cycle idea discussed in an interview Pitchfork had with Ejstes in late March. Watch this space for more details.