The Fat Angel Sings

The Amazing, a Swedish group featuring Dungen guitarist/all-around prog guy Reine Fiske, specializes in a sort of long-winded, gorgeous psychedelia that is so unfashionable it almost becomes fashionable again. The band’s considerable melodic talents produced one of last year’s strongest rock albums, Picture You. Now, barely a year later, comes a more hushed, ambling set called  “Ambulance” , which despite its title plays more like a leisurely night drive through some surreal, half-lit city. Ambulance was apparently recorded live in a one-room studio in Stockholm, and the songs, which anchor themselves around Christoffer Gunrup’s ocean-smooth murmur of a voice, are rich in improvisation. All that Ambulance is missing, if anything, are the fiery instrumental passages and taut drama that gave Picture You its edge. Sleepy and settled, these songs are more likely to blend into one another, which is not such a bad thing when the arrangements are so strong