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For its fourth full-length studio album, Sigur Ros returns to the sound that made the Icelandic ensemble an internationally renowned rock band. Whereas the group's first outing, VON, was dark and heavy, and 2002's () was often ambient and drone-driven, TAKK...sees Jonsi Birgisson and the lads revisiting the chiming, soaring aesthetic of AGAETIS BYRJUN, the quartet's acclaimed breakthrough record. On this 2005 disc, Sigur Ros's melodies and rhythms ebb and flow beautifully, occasionally building to fierce, guitar-laden crests. Birgisson's high, wispy vocals are still key to the band's sound, but the foursome's intuitive instrumental work, which is highlighted by atmospheric keyboards and pounding percussion, truly carries these songs, resulting in a potent, mesmerizing album.
Sigur Ros: Jonsi Birgisson (vocals, guitar); Kjartan Sveinsson (keyboards); Georg Holm (bass guitar); Orri Pall Dyrason (drums).
Recording information: 2005.
Rolling Stone (No. 983, p.104) - 3.5 out of 5 stars - "...TAKK... suggests a far more abstract Coldplay, stripped of their stadium bombast...."
Spin (p.139) - "Birgisson sings in tongues most of us can't comprehend, and thus he can punch emotional buttons in a strangely direct way." - Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly (No. 840, p.88) - "...[T]he thundering majesty of harder tracks...finds its strings-laden counterpart in the swooning, slow-mo abstraction that makes up the bulk of this disc..." - Grade: A-
Uncut (p.109) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[E]motionally seductive....Dark clouds of intensity gather and then slowly disperse, leaving a crystalline calm."
Magnet (p.108) - "TAKK's mini suites play out with typically complex beauty....Gathering tiny moments of clarity into big, breathtaking shapes that are glorious to examine from near or far."
The Wire (p.63) - "The music's strengths lie in its sheer vastness, depicting a series of enormous peaks and crescendos before suddenly cutting back to tiny details, contrasting the hugeness of the group's full sound with the fragility of some of its elements."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.60) - Ranked #27 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2005" - "A coming-of-age album from Iceland's etherealists."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 - "TAKK...delivers a mighty, crashing release of soul-wringing, meat-eating noise to resolve its complex, tension-building miniaturism." Takk... Music Review Average Rating: (4.4 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Recant of prior posting
I have to confess. I listened to it several times and concede this is brilliant.
I guess I just expected something a bit different and when it was not it, I was initially disappointed.I guess my earlier post was reactionary.
I recant my earlier posting in spades. The cd just gets better and now I can't stop listening to it. I am definitely going to the concert in Indianapolis in February!
Submitted by mrmoore01 (Jeffrey Moore Bloomington, Indiana) 
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 Stunning....
Their best work yet.
Submitted by fervidtorpor (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
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Melodic and Masterful
The songwriting has matured, the band is tight as ever, and the melodic sensory overload of Takk will infect you deliciously. The band has added more instruments and amazing percussion, without losing the fresh angst and anguished driving force of Jonsi's haunting vocals.
Submitted by aeon_will (Atlanta, GA)
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Truly truly magnificent! this record will bring you in another world and make you dream out loud!!!!!5 stars
Submitted by Cyrus (Dayville,Ct)
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You just have to applaud a group like this who go totally off the mainstream page to make some of the most beautiful music ever made. This is not like Radiohead or Bjork, this music has form and substance in an asymetrical presentation. This is prog art at it's finest! These guys are as good as Genesis in it's earlier Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett days. They'll go far if they stay true to form and don't sell out to pop or some other flavor of the day like Genesis did!
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This stately Iceland rock outfit took the alternative-music world by storm with its second album, AGAETIS BYRJUN--a haunting, eloquent, 76-minute instant classic. Frontman Jon Por Birgisson sings in a language he calls "Hopelandic" (a combination of Icelandic and his own angelic calling), over the lyrical ebb and flow of feedback-drenched guitar, gushing keyboards, gently driving bass, and drums that crash like the surf of an alien ocean. After a droning beginning, the curtains suddenly part with "Svefn-G-Englar," revealing a sound as wide open and exhilarating as Iceland's landscape. Later, the mournful violin and slowly cascading beats of "Flugufrelsarinn" give way to ghostly horn sections, orchestral crescendos, stretches of silence, crashing dissonance, sad piano lines, and a Radiohead-esque dip into the ...
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"()" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and for Best Recording Package.
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Although it wasn't released in the United States until 2004, VON is actually Sigur Ros's debut album (released in Iceland in 1997). The band made a grand appearance on the world stage in 1999 with AGAETIS BYRJUN, and were quickly heralded for their evocative, majestic guitar-scapes and their ability to conjure the mythic expanses of their native country with a blend of instrumental post-rock, ethereal vocals, wild experimentalism, and swirling shoegazer aesthetic. Fans of that album might expect VON to be a blueprint of AGAETIS, yet it is as markedly different from its successor as () (the band's third album) was to its predecessor.
The lengthy opening track (named after the band) contains a cacophony of unsettling sounds and minimal electronica, putting the listener on notice that VON is not your average indie rock outing. The rest of the album veers between dreamy, gentle, floating-in-space ambience and atmospheric, guitar-heavy excursions that owe an obvious debt to My Bloody Valentine. On several tracks vocalist Jon Thor Birgisson lets his lilting, androgynous voice float above the fray, putting the defining stamp on the group's sound. Unique, engaging, and full of sonic surprises, VON is a bold first statement from one of the more original and compelling bands to emerge from Europe at the turn of the century.
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