 | By: Sigur Ros Label: Geffen Released: 13 Sep 2005 RRP: Average Rating:  |
The album starts off with the aforementioned song, after a brief intro, and...well... I will be honest & say it is increasingly growing on me. And I guess for this album, which will probably end up being their biggest selling & most widely known record, its a fine opener. It is impressive, but its nothing new. As the album progresses, its tinkly pianos & pounding drums & Jonsi's usual voice. And... its alll very nice. If a bit bland. Live favorite Milano never reallly gripped me live & on record it isn't too great either. Saeglopur is certainly one of the stand out songs, along with Gong. Each one nothing entirely new, but it feels like a revert back to better times.
Sigur Rós of late seem to be getting very generic & formulaic. Many of the songs on Takk consist of piano tinklings & the smurf-like vocals used on Vaka. And, well..it is nice & it is pretty & it is different, but it is still the same as what they have done before. Something feels missing from the album. Agaetis Byrjún had such am amazing feel to it, a feel that was lost slightly with ( ) & demolished with Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do.
Two of the tracks also have two parts, both of which feel totallly unecessary. Maybe if they had replaced these two with the live version of Hafssol the album would have been a different animal altogether.
I don't know, maybe Takk is just too proggy. Something seems to have gone amiss in the Sigur Rós camp, I don't want to hear the same old music, & Takk is a step away from ( ) but its not necessarily a step forward. This is not a bad album by any means, its just...maybe something more was expected from the band.
Still, I don't think I will be stomping on the cd... not just yet anyway.
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