Sigur R?s - Takk...
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Free Music Review: Incredible
Hit: 5 Stars
Sigur Ros is an incredible band. They use so many different sounds to adjust the mood until it's just right... the album sounds so meticulously crafted. You can almost see the album unfolding, as opposed to just hearing it. The music draws pictures in your head. Not like that of a soundtrack, but the music brings up images that can bring up your deepest emotions. This album was the best $20 I spent all year. It has been a long time since I've gotten such enjoyment out of any type of modern music. Powerchords and pop-riffs just don't do it anymore. The complexity yet simplicity (if that makes sense) of the soundscapes created by Sigur Ros are unparalleled by anything I have ever heard. Takk has much more emotion and character than the album I've been listening to for almost three years running, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Takk is an album I would not miss. Probably not the sparkle in a pop-rock listener's eye, but any Pink Floyd or Godspeed fan will greatly appreciate what Sigur Ros have done here.Free Music Review: Genius
Hit: 5 Stars
"Genius" is not the sort of word that can be realistically applied to most modern music. No matter how good a work might be, there is a vast divide between something being unique or even remarkable, and something being a work of genius. Takk crosses that divide. Hell, it takes a bounding leap over it. This is complex, subtle, beautiful stuff. What's more, Sigur Ros in general, and this album specifically, accomplishes something really astonishing: it allows almost everybody from every walk of life to feel something powerful and memorable. In other words, and at the risk of giving Sigor Ros a starry-eyed compliment, Takk brushes up against something deep and very human and causes it to resonate beautifully.
Free Music Review: The only reason I'm rating this 4 stars instead of 5...
Hit: 4 Stars
is because I saw them live and nothing compares to it. It was an unearlthly experience. Yes, they really sound the same way they do on the album kids. That same etherial feeling is there except BETTER. I had the insense urge to get up and start dancing through the entire show (being a dancer that was my urge...I'm not guaranteeing that it will happen to everyone haha). So my point is, if you think that this or any of their other albums are magical, you MUST see them live. It's like nothing you've ever seen or heard. Just hearing my favorite songs from this album (tracks 6 and 8, especially 6...sorry I don't exactly have the names burned in my head) in full sound resonating through the theater I was in was one of the most damned amazing things I've ever heard. So go see them live!! I saw them in Cleveland so I know they go to more than just ginormous cities...oh and if you can't see them live then please do yourself a favor and just buy all their stuff. Okay I'm done raving...peace and lovin. Free Music Review: IN ICELANDIC, NO LESS
Hit: 4 Stars
It sounds like a psychotic reaction to a Catholic mass. Something horrified goes running from the church. Bells, chants, booming crescendos, and a glockenspiel tied to a lead weight, go hand in hand with swirling and standard back vocals, (oooh, aaah, oooh), which are about as progressive as The Partridge Family, complimented and compensated by a weird, whimpering lead vocal that sounds like an alien-being with lockjaw attempting to mimic the human voice. Washed over by a wave of alarming, climactic vocal structure, and tinkered by a constant, brainwashing keyboard that sounds like a passive-aggresive hearing test from a very bad nightmare. Accesible? Not if your of this world. I know one thing. I drove down a lonely highway from central New York State to Pennsylvania on a cold stormy winter night, and popped this new CD in the player, and I swear, SOMETHING was trying to take control of the steering wheel. Free Music Review: Great music, but the CASE is annoying.
Hit: 4 Stars
This review is not about the music. It is about the case that the CD is packaged in. While aesthetically clever and unique, the case is larger in width and length than a standard CD case (if there is such a thing). The depth is also reduced to about 1/4 the normal size, almost like a beverage coaster.
The only reason this bothers me is because it is too large for my shelves. On the built-in CD rack, designed for "standard CD cases", this case simply will not fit in any angle. On a regular shelf where there is no limit to storage size, the only odd thing about the case is that is sticks out farther than other CD cases.
I would say "case closed", but it's only my observation.