Customer Reviews
A word of warning - By: Martin Barraclough, 25 Jun 2008 
I bought this on the strength of customer reviews which made it sound like the kind of music I might like.
Wrong. I find the music turgid & monotonous. It is difficult to determine where one track finshes & the next one begins. The strangled warble which passes for vocals is very irritating.
It may work as backing music on TV but is does not stand up on its own.
Don't be takenin by the Sigor Ros appreciation society (whose entire membership seem to have offered a review here),try before you buy!
Sigur Ros - a layman's view - By: jamesewan, 24 Jun 2008 
Sigur Ros are fast becoming a Popular Experimental Band That I Don't Like, a moniker I have only knowingly bestowed before on Spiritualised. On paper, Sigur Ros are a band that I should love, but it just doesn't really engage me. For all the cliches attached to music from Iceland ("molten magma, omnipotent ice fields & burbling hot springs" to borrow from the Amazon review) Takk doesn't sound like a band who want to distance themselves from this kind of lazy journalistic shorthand. Similar to their countrymen Mum, Sigur Ros make a music rootedin a visual language rooted very muchin their country, which is notin itself the problem. The problem is that Takk sounds like a band working for the Icelandic tourist board - all glossy grandeur, enormous landscapes & sudden cutesy cooing & childhood whimsy. Those are the two themes, & they are repeated over & over ad nauseum.
Takk, tellingly Sigur Ros' first for a major label, plays to the stereotype of Iceland as some kind of fairytale wonderland full of playful, innocent but inadvertently sexy people, but is evocative of nothing else. Rather, Takk sounds like a band doing a parody of themselves, adopting a sonic grammar that is so blatantly them to be entirely predictable. Sure there are some impressive moments of sonic abandon, butin a post-post-rock era (if I can coin a phrase) where the likes of Godspeed, Mogwai, Explosionsin the Sky, Do Make Say Think etc. etc. have not left us wanting for crushing walls of feedback, Takk sounds a little too pretty, too contrived & too safe to move me. Furthermore, the `quiet bits' as I shall call them - a default mode of squeeling babytalk & glockenspiel - are irritatingly repetitive & uninspiring. Even Mum, who tradein similar atmospheres, have more than two gears, & succeedin provide more varied textures & instrumental passages.
The best moments owe themselves to other bands & are quite easily to live without. `Gong' for instance features a refreshingly ominous bass & discordant strings but borrows heavily from Radiohead's `Where I End & You Begin'. The singer's tendency to overdo the falsetto sometimes sounds frustratingly like a band striving to reach a sublimity that they haven't earnt through the power of the music. In other words, Sigur Ros never know when enough is enough, & new peaks appear when the intensity of the music has already outstayed its welcome. Likewise, the glacial prog of `Saeglopur' features some lovely, stately piano chords, but swells into an identikit guitar maelstrom that could be labelled the `loud bit'. I'm not certainly not averse to this kind of music, but Takk is really the commercial, superficial end of it, & massively overrated.
Takk... - By: S. SANDERSON, 08 Jun 2008 
This album is absolutely amazing & i find it hard to believe that a thing of such beauty can actually be recorded onto a disc.
pure beauty - By: Martha Timmis, 02 Jun 2008 It's difficult to put into words how good this album is, because it's beyond anything i've ever heard. It really is pure beauty, & when i listen to it i get goosebumps because you can just feel the emotions flowing from the songs. I also think the fact that the album isn'tin english means you can get any meaning from it that you want. It's not an album i would just throw on because there's nothing on the radio, it's seems more special than that, & when i listen to it, i feel i want to give it my entire attention, & just sit & take it all in. I think i've rambled on for long enough now, i hope this has helped, & you get from this album everything i have.
simply beautiful - By: Irvine Brandy, 19 Feb 2008 its a shame that Amazon tranishes its rating by allowing every fan to post 5 stars for any & ever piece of crap some mediocre band releases (Oasis - 4 stars? Pete Doherty - ANY stars!?) this usually means its hard to get a true feel what the album is actually like.
I think it has to be something specialin order to get 5 stars, otherwise the rating loses its meaning. like here - this album DOES deserve 5 stars. it is unlike any classic masterpiece album, but all the same - it is a classic masterpiece.
This is Sigur Ros at their absolute tip top best physical condition, on form & showing the world. Glosoli, Hoppipolla (you'll know from the BBC) Saeglopur (the best track) & Andvari are rock solid tracks.
