Takk ... (CD)
Takk..., the fourth album from Sigur Ros. Written, performed and produced by the band (along with co-producer Ken Thomas) at their studio in Alafoss, Iceland, Takk... is the record to justify every amazing claim ever laid at this exceptional band's door.
Huge and intimate, orchestral and gossamer-light, rich layered and essentially simple, Takk... is a work of a band operating at the very top of their game. It accomplishes what maybe they haven't done since they first appeared, which is to make the avant-garde appear to be straight ahead pop music, or, perhaps more accurately, invest pop music with a sense of magic long since lost in the mists of time and imagination (not that they sound anything like any music made back in any mythical musical heyday).
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | Takk |
| 2 | Glosoli |
| 3 | Hoppipolla |
| 4 | Meo Blodnasir |
| 5 | Se Lest |
| 6 | Saeglopur |
| 7 | Milano |
| 8 | Gong |
| 9 | Andvari |
| 10 | Svo Hljott |
| 11 | Heysatan |
| Aaron Call
- Berlin, MD, USA |
| Sigur-Ros is one of my favorite bands and they did not disappoint me with their new album Takk. It is a little different than their last album, but different in a good way. The songs are not quite as long but still just as phenomenal. To me Sigur-Ros is just in a category of their own, no one sounds like them and they totally kick butt. Sigur-Ros rules!!!!!!!! | |
| Anne
- New York, NY, USA |
| This grand orchestrational joy is the Christmas morning record for when everyone opens beribboned packages of true love, world peace, and finds out they're secretly the new Queen of a small country in Europe. Not suitable for mediocre sentiments and half-hearted gestures. | |