"The album sheds the band in a completely different light. They step out of the smoke and haze of their old compositions and show off the individual parts. Throughout 4, Dungen prove themselves to be a great band, and great songwriters, not just great noise-smiths. Ejstes’s vocals stay clean through most of the record, and actually sound warmer without the reverb. The spaces in these songs, where the hazy fuzz used to be, invites the listeners in more, making the record more intimate than its predecessors. It’s nice to see a muscled band like Dungen turning toward craft and away from volume. It started with the more understated sound of Tio Bitar, but with the downright catchy songs on 4, the band looks to have reached the height of its powers. Either that, or they’ve just arrived at this new sound and are just getting started. If that’s the case (and knowing the band’s huge talent it could be) then watch out. Because now that Dungen have reigned their sound in a little, they have really cut loose."

"For nigh on nine years Dungen have been creating some of the most groundbreaking and underground music around. 4 sees them far surpassing anything they’ve done before. The ten tracks making up the album are not so much tracks, but more movements, each flowing seamlessly into the next, yet each one still retaining its own atmosphere. 4 sees Dungen mark out two very different music personalities, on one hand the raw, psych-garage stoner riffs, complete with Hendrix guitar yelps and Sabbath fuzz and with the switch of a Big Muff the band suddenly enter ‘70s B-movie soundtrack territory; - jazz fusion progressions, calypso flutes and dramatic time-signature changes."