Sigur Rós anno 2005: by insinuating to knochenberstend, wonderful smoothe dynamics increase the Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Explosions in the Sky would not be better able to make, Wall of Sound Galore! So sounds at least Glosoli, the opener of Takk. And something like that it then goes on in the course of the album: chimes, strings and pianos build beautiful castles in the air in the cloudless sky, but a zoom-approaching end thunderstorms from quirky Moog synths, endlessly overdriven guitars, infernal Polterdrums and pool, pool, pool plunge then fully, falling into a sea of cacophonous noise attacks and feedback with islands from reveling pathos and melancholy songs, fantastically innocent melodies and small sample snippets the peel like wood shavings from the songs to the ground and there floriferous new playgrounds for unusual ideas can proliferate. Since complete Polka marching bands trample drunkenly through the sound paintings, spread hand tumbled drum'n'bass rhythms discomfort and suddenly shimmering little pop gems through the thicket of strange gloomy soundscapes, hypnotic Doomgitarren and swirling bass drones. In other words you think so, according Ágætis Byrjun and () one knows the concept Sigur Rós good enough and is actually not soooo surprised, but it's simply stunning how far Sigur Rós actually their idea of music from popular, Pop-compatible concepts are removed. And when something music in pop style flashes, then the same sweetly and absolutely over-harmonious that one may think directly "caricature". And that perhaps is the only issue on TAKK Sometimes sugar is perhaps applied a bit thick, a little exaggerated pathos and happiness even a little cheesy. However, this in turn contributes to the fact that when things get dramatic when the clouds darkened and suddenly breaks out the inferno, then plunges in literally the sky a ... CONCLUSION: Great cinema for the ears. Overdramatises and voluptuous, a perfect symbiosis of (), Ágætis Byrjun and the experimental clicker Klacker soundtrack for Merce Cunningham Splitside performance of 2004.
