Dina Ögon

Dina Ögon - Orion (Crystal Clear)

A1 - Jag Vill Ha Allt
A2 - Håll Avstånd
A3 - Det Läcker
A4 - Glitter
B1 - Firad
B2 - Milton
B3 - Orion
B4 - Mellan De Sju Fjällen
B5 - Tomma Lådor

Orion is the third outing from Dina Ögon (“Your Eyes” in Swedish), the band that surprisingly flew in over the Swedish music scene from the sidelines two years ago. 
Dina Ögon have managed to condense the best from their self-titled debut and the sophomore effort Oas, without losing any of the playfulness. The first two albums were steeped in a rampant nostalgia that redeveloped old music into new. Orion however steps forward, even though the band can’t refrain from nodding back to their beloved musical influences of old the soundscape is so modern. 
Dina Ögon seem more focused on the heavens above than on the earth below them, their vision is more out- and upward bound on Orion than in comparison with previous albums. The laidback sound of Håll avstånd and Glitter reminds you of space. The scent of space aside, the band still has its feet on the ground, the drumming on Milton is firmly rooted in Brazilian soul and the sound is at once beautiful, melancholic, and joyful, like a song by Milton Nascimento, the artist it is named after, and Det läcker comes across like a four plus minute long road movie.
Orion seduces with a confidence greater than on all previous efforts from Dina Ögon. It’s a testament to their strength. At one and the same time the album winds up and about through different moods and a coherent expression. The music fits neatly together with songs that explore a darker subject matter than before, without losing a playful lyricism. The title track is like a curious and joyful walk through a forest, and the opening track a bittersweet cavalcade of emotion that sets the bar for everything that follows. When the record progresses to Håll avstånd the listener is bombarded by a relentless groove that’s bound to find its way on to myriads av mixtapes from more adventurous DJ’s.
Just as with the previous albums, any radio-DJ contemplating what songs to play is bound for some tough decisions, because the album is devoid of weak tracks. You could pick what tracks to promote the album with blindfolded. The electric organ on Firad feels lifted from the soundtrack of an obscure cult movie. Orion moves in between city and country, great expanses and great clubs, bars, and chambers, and you can tell – this is an album that will ignite dancefloors as well as ride the airwaves and end nights, even more than its predecessors. 
Dina Ögon have struggled with describing their music. Bass player Love Örsan once suggested “ordinary pop”. Which is way too humble, this is altogether extraordinary pop. Extraordinary because the album seamlessly forms a whole you want to dive and exit your everyday life into. It’s easy to get lost in the world created between Anna Ahnlunds suave vocals and the ridiculously tight general musicianship. Few ordinary pop albums have that quality.
Dina Ögon have developed their alchemy with Orion. The impressive ability to manage wildly disparate musical influences is subsumed under the unfailingly original expression.

180 g vinyl
PGMLLPX177

Dina Ögon - Orion

A1 - Jag Vill Ha Allt
A2 - Håll Avstånd
A3 - Det Läcker
A4 - Glitter
B1 - Firad
B2 - Milton
B3 - Orion
B4 - Mellan De Sju Fjällen
B5 - Tomma Lådor

Orion is the third outing from Dina Ögon (“Your Eyes” in Swedish), the band that surprisingly flew in over the Swedish music scene from the sidelines two years ago. 
Dina Ögon have managed to condense the best from their self-titled debut and the sophomore effort Oas, without losing any of the playfulness. The first two albums were steeped in a rampant nostalgia that redeveloped old music into new. Orion however steps forward, even though the band can’t refrain from nodding back to their beloved musical influences of old the soundscape is so modern. 
Dina Ögon seem more focused on the heavens above than on the earth below them, their vision is more out- and upward bound on Orion than in comparison with previous albums. The laidback sound of Håll avstånd and Glitter reminds you of space. The scent of space aside, the band still has its feet on the ground, the drumming on Milton is firmly rooted in Brazilian soul and the sound is at once beautiful, melancholic, and joyful, like a song by Milton Nascimento, the artist it is named after, and Det läcker comes across like a four plus minute long road movie.
Orion seduces with a confidence greater than on all previous efforts from Dina Ögon. It’s a testament to their strength. At one and the same time the album winds up and about through different moods and a coherent expression. The music fits neatly together with songs that explore a darker subject matter than before, without losing a playful lyricism. The title track is like a curious and joyful walk through a forest, and the opening track a bittersweet cavalcade of emotion that sets the bar for everything that follows. When the record progresses to Håll avstånd the listener is bombarded by a relentless groove that’s bound to find its way on to myriads av mixtapes from more adventurous DJ’s.
Just as with the previous albums, any radio-DJ contemplating what songs to play is bound for some tough decisions, because the album is devoid of weak tracks. You could pick what tracks to promote the album with blindfolded. The electric organ on Firad feels lifted from the soundtrack of an obscure cult movie. Orion moves in between city and country, great expanses and great clubs, bars, and chambers, and you can tell – this is an album that will ignite dancefloors as well as ride the airwaves and end nights, even more than its predecessors. 
Dina Ögon have struggled with describing their music. Bass player Love Örsan once suggested “ordinary pop”. Which is way too humble, this is altogether extraordinary pop. Extraordinary because the album seamlessly forms a whole you want to dive and exit your everyday life into. It’s easy to get lost in the world created between Anna Ahnlunds suave vocals and the ridiculously tight general musicianship. Few ordinary pop albums have that quality.
Dina Ögon have developed their alchemy with Orion. The impressive ability to manage wildly disparate musical influences is subsumed under the unfailingly original expression.

180 g vinyl
PGMLLP177

Dina Ögon - Oas

A1 - Bakom Glaset
A2 - Mormor
A3 - Berget
A4 - Vi Smälter
A5 - År
B1 - Oas
B2 - Mellan Slagen
B3 - Docka
B4 - Docka Kväll
B5 - Pumpan

Dina Ögon is like a bumblebee – big and fluffy and it should be impossible for it to fly, but it does it anyway – quite simply as well. Anna Ahnlund, Christopher Cantillo, Daniel Ögren and Love Örsan have had forty fingers involved in an unnumerable amount of Swedish rock, jazz, soul and pop projects, recordings and tours and all kinds of hush hush. Between themselves they’ve played in different constellations and played back up for each other, assisted even more in one form or another for more than a decade. But now they’ve formed a more remarkable quartet than what transpired from any of all the shenanigans they’ve previously been involved with.
Oas kicks off with the optimistic sounds of Bakom glaset to rush forth between the soundscapes of pop from both sides of the Atlantic in the sixties. Not least on the summery Berget or the low key, soft rock of Docka. When the latter is followed up with Docka ikväll – that in other circumstances would be categorized as a dub remix – it becomes adventurous and the reinvent what they just assembled in a new form. 
Whoever had the laborious duty of choosing singles from this album must have had a tough task; the biggest weakness is that this is solidly good to the point of making it absurdly hard to name what the obvious standout tune is. Mormor is a sonic Rorschach test, one moment it sounds joyful, the next it’s melancholic bordering the sad. But the title track Oas might be the boss cut here and the lyrics about love and its complexity, about the everyday that follows infatuation, might have the lines that will linger in memory and rule the airwaves. With a tone and a text wholly cognate with the greats of seventies pop.
It’s not conventional wisdom to mix every delicacy you like when cooking, but Dina Ögon seem to have gotten away with it and their time spent in the studio seems to have been dedicated to a rebuttal of that wisdom. Folk rock, soul, bossanova, jazz and hip hop beats get on well together in this space and seem to infect each other and the listeners. 
The self-titled debut was like a tilted “Whodunnit” detective story; rather than “who has done it?” you ask yourself “how did they do it?”. On the sophomore effort it feels as if the band is even more playful, perhaps because they’ve simply found their form, but that never leads to an overdose of comfortability because the tracks go off in so many different directions. Just when you figure you’ve got the name of a possible original source of inspiration on your tongue the song suckerpunches you and charges on towards futurist sounds of the past. As a whole, Oas takes the form of a cinematic carpet, one moment it’s as if a soul big band orchestra got to compose the soundtrack to an unreleased blockbuster movie recorded in the sixties, the next moment it’s a message in a bottle in the shape of pop marinated in slick r’n’b and hip hop.

PGMLLP163
180g vinyl

Dina Ögon

Gul vinyl. 

A1 - Sol
A2 - Tombola 94 
A3 - Undantag
A4 - Mellanrum
A5 - Efter natten
B1 - Nirvana 
B2 - Dolus & Culpa
B3 - Dina ögon
B4 - Ficktjuven

Let us introduce you to Dina Ögon and their self titled debut. This album is a collection of musical fantasies embossed by en irresistible groove. Ahnlund is an instrument of voice and together with the rest of the band they manage to reach new incredible heights of XXX (???). Dina Ögon take you on a ride in a Cadillac 40 miles per hour straight to the sun on a chill summer night. You have not heard anything like this in a long time. Feel free to dig deep into the last song as an example. Psychedelic and playful with choirs you could not really imagine.

PGMLLP162

Dina Ögon & Broder John - Mellan Slagen / Docka (live)

1 - Mellan Slagen
2 - Docka (Live)

Two of Sweden’s most interesting artists collaborate on this brand-new version of “Mellan slagen” from Dina Ögon’s celebrated album “Oas”. The song – which was originally inspired by glaciers and fjords lit up with neon lights and permeated with a smokey club feel – weaves together Broder John’s nasal, soft flow with the slow, almost ghostly groove which brings to mind the 90s Bristol trip hop scene.

Broder John has made quite a name for himself as a force to be reckoned with on the Swedish music scene. 
This Umeå-bred artist has contributed to shaping the music of today and leading the way for a new generation of artists. Following his debut album “Cool” and the sophomore album “DRIFT”, he was picked as the first-ever artist singing in Swedish to perform on the international platform COLORSXSTUDIOS.

Broder John says, “Dina Ögon is the best thing to have happened to Sweden in the last 10 years and ‘Oas’ is an instant classic. I don’t think I’ve ever been as quick to accept an invitation as I was when this one came in.”

Broder John on the new lyrics: “If you’ve listened to my previous lyrics, you can see that I’m often drawn to writing about different contradictions in life. I’m very inspired by Anna’s lyrical writing, and I heard her words in the chorus “finns inga krav” [“there are no requirements”] and I wanted to explore if there was something I could take from that into my world. I’ve had this idea for quite a long time about the scenario in which someone says that “everyone is lying” and what that means for the person saying it – are they lying too in that case? So, in combination with Anna’s world and the incredible production, it felt like a perfect painting to continue painting. I think the last sentence ties it together nicely, “Kan inte lita på nån här, det är sjukt, så tro mig när jag säger att det är sant – alla ljuger” [“Can’t trust anyone here, it’s insane, so believe me when I say that it’s true – everyone is lying”].

Dina Ögon on the collaboration: “Broder John is one of the best ones we have, we like that stuff, please listen!”

Limiterad upplaga 7” vinyl

PGMLS176