Sigur Rós
Takk...

THE REVIEW

At this point I must also give my review of "Takk...", allow me...

Sigur Rós "Takk..."
The northern ice has melted under a new sun.

In the light, the fourth album by Sigur Rós, the most important and surprising band of the moment, the most romantic and sweet as of now. "Takk..." ("thank you") is the title of their latest work, a work conceived in total tranquility where the artistic vein of the four Icelanders freely floats and creates perfect geometries with sounds of rarefied post-rock, bringing to completion a work more sunlit than the previous "( )". Having moved to a major label, they remain faithful to their musical line, increasingly profound and rooted now in an excellent dream pop. A maturation worthy of Radiohead, but this time freer and emotionally more cheerful.

An intro of a few seconds and the bass bursts and booms in the beautiful and poignant Glosoli before reaching the extreme sweetness and romantic liveliness of Hoppipolla. Having abandoned the hopelandic of "( )", Jonsi tells us about characters out of time and space, recounting visionary fairy tales, a new journey in the land of ice. Sé Lest seems like a photograph of Iceland, a crescendo of emotions that leaves one breathless, where slowly a light northern wind blows along your back, a magical moment of the album that continues with the enchanting Saeglopur, a kind of ambient music once again plucked by Jonsi's bright voice. Milanó and Gong are the closest to the previous album. The former recorded in Milan in 2001 from an initial intuition of the all-female quartet Amina before the concert; the latter tried and presented in the 2002 tour. The encomium is left to the beautiful Heysatan, four minutes of solo voice accompanied by piano and brass. An emotional masterpiece, a unique work.