SIGUR ROS
Takk
Geffen
· Demise greatly exaggerated.
While reports that Takk was Sigur Ros’s pop-minded grab at the mainstream have been greatly exaggerated, their fourth album is their most digestible – all-encompassing and friendly like the warmest winter blankets.
After 2002’s somewhat difficult album ( ), Takk fully embraces Sigur Ros’s epic pop sensibilities, the likes of "Hoppipolla" and "Gong" approaching the orchestral sway of a national anthem. It makes little difference what Jónsi Birgisson is actually saying – whether Icelandic, or in his own invented Hopelandish, this time around we’ve all reached the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.
While ( ) seemed lost and glacial, Takk is the perfect autumn record, enveloping and gorgeous, it’s another instant headphone classic. Given how the members of Sigur Ros have all settled down recently, be it through marriage, babies or love at long last (the previously lonely Brigisson’s new boyfriend contributes the album’s gorgeous artwork), Takk is an amazingly bright step forward.
|
Copyright ©2005 FFWD. All rights reserved.