Takka Takka
Migration

THE REVIEW

How touching it is to self-celebrate when one stumbles upon a great band. This is the case with Takka Takka.

If anyone wants to hear with their own auditory appendages how difficult it is these days to create a rock-influenced album that is slow and measured, deep and minimal, step right up, the market offers nothing better.

The dreamy atmospheres of this "Migration" are finely articulated, all elements are in the right place. However, it's an apparent dream, it has real contours and is based on concreteness, not elusiveness.

It starts with the musical enigma of "Monkey Forest Road," branded Animal Collective. The splendid rock lullaby "Silence" is perhaps the emblem of the band's formula: developed on a minimalist setup, funky bass, some soft synth backdrops, and slightly drawn-out singing, with verses that repeat, giving a danceable aura to the composition. "The Takers," more hectic, maintains the same delicacy with a breathtaking finale.

"Everybody Say" is a gem with a fragile rock skeleton, made of heavenly guitar interweaving, tantric percussion, and velvety synths. With this piece, Takka Takka appear to have found the meeting point between electronic and acoustic music.

"Homebreaker" is a mysterious shroud wrapped in folk where apathetic synths float and expressionless voices recite a litany reminiscent of the Doors; suddenly everything stops to make way for a funky-trance where the voices turn to the darkness of early Interpol. "Fall Down Where You Stand" is characterized by a gypsy pop, similar to that of R.E.M.. "Lion in The Waves" is a solitary lament that gets lost in its lo-fi echoes while the subsequent "One Foot in a Well" beguiles us with clean guitars and the purity of the voices.

The last two tracks offer us the most romantic and tranquil pop of the album: "Change, No Change," which recalls Snow Patrol with its revolving around itself, and finally "You And Universe," a masterpiece where the more intimate early Counting Crows initially appear, allowing a Wilco-style guitar to tear the finale and our heart.

Released in the United States in 2008, it was reissued in 2010 for the European market, a tangible sign of the album's quality and personality over time.