Sigur R?s - Takk...
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Free Music Review: Great Album From A Great Band
Hit: 5 Stars
Really Great music contained on this CD. These guys are so great. Their music just takes you to places within your self. So many moods and sounds to keep your mind occupied and the lyrics fill things in perfectly. I've heard some people say,that Sigur Ros sounded like Radiohead and Bjork, I actually liked both to a certain degree, so I bought this album. I am a dedicated fan of music. My tastes cover a wide variety of genres of music. Having said this, I can tell you in all confidence that Takk is absolutely the best album I have heard in a long time. By the way, you can get a lot of free songs from this band on their website. If you're not sure if you will like it that might be a good place to start. If you have an open mind, I think you will like this music.Free Music Review: Icelandic atmospherists explore the boundbaries of melody.
Hit: 4 Stars
If Sigur Ros' 2002 album ( ) was the aural equivalent of a lonely walk along a desolate shore, then Takk... can be visualized as a majestic flight, creating the impression of soaring gracefully above the clouds on a clear day. Takk...'s uplifting, atmospheric melodies make it a perfect comlimentary piece to ( )'s meloncholic soundscapes, conjuring an image of the afternoon sun breaking through the grey clouds of a rainy day.
Front man Jon Thor Birgisson's haunting, effeminate vocals once again add themselves to the group's lush melodies as another instrument rather than a focal point around which the songs revolve around. Adding to the depth of Sigur Ros' richly layered melodies is Birgisson's return to singing in his native language of Icelandic after ( )'s simple yet effectively eery gibberish language.
Although it's great to hear the group experimenting in new sounds, some of the more creative instrumentation sounds a bit akward and out of place. The brass horn section in Se Lest, for example, steers an otherwise beautiful song into novelty circus music territory.
But Takk... hits more often than it misses, as evidenced by Gong, in which mournfully somber string arrangements usher in a mid-tempo drum beat harmonizing perfectly with dreamlike guitars.
Sigur Ros may be overlooked by MTV and mainstream radio, but it suits then just well for their albums to serve as the hidden treasure buried in a chest in a dusty attic.
Free Music Review: Not as unique as everyone's been saying, but still great
Hit: 5 Stars
Just wanted to address all of the armchair critics who say that Sigur Ros sound like no other band in this galaxy.
Admittedly only having heard Takk..., I can still say that's false. Bands like Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance were making exactly this kind of music over 20 years ago.
Having said that, I *LOVE* this kind of music and am happy to include Sigur Ros amongst that company. Takk ... is a beautiful, captivating, delicate mood-setter of an album, and it's made a new fan out of me, an old fan of ambient alternarock like Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance. I hope it does the same with others, and vice versa - Sigur Ros fans should check out those old bands as well. Let's share the love!
Free Music Review: Stinkska!
Hit: 1 Stars
Holy crap!!!! I just borrowed this sleeping pill from the library and I must say, with a doubt, that the "amazing music" being played within the confines of the demonic-designed dustjacket/slipcase is probably one good reason for the high mortality rate during the Arctic nights in Iceland. This is New Age music wrapped in a big, furry parka with that little Muppet, Beeker (remember that little dude, the one shaped like a test tube, that could only say "Mee-mee-mee-mee"? It's him!), singing all the leads (he must be doing some multi-tracking of his voice). An ambiant drone, for sure. Fluid sounds, like writing your name in the snow, guys. This band must have taken Frank Zappa and The Mothers record title seriously - "We're Only In It For The Money". Bjork could fart into a microphone for 30 minutes and come up with something about as "ambiant" and "soothing". One reviewer called this music "mind-numbing". Truer words were never spoken....Free Music Review: Excruciating
Hit: 1 Stars
Sigur Ros sounds like someone unpacking wind chimes while somebody else steps on a doggie chew-toy. If that's not aggravating enough there are also their signature mewling "vocals." There is something very odd about the twenty year old set these days: They prefer many bands that have a sachharine, sing-songy quality and an earnestness previously found only in childrens music. Not surprising for a generation that's nutty for Playstation and thinks skateboarding is a career. The infantilization of adulthood continues to be the goal.