The Observer:
"With Takk, Sigur Rós have raised their game, to the extent that 'Glósóli"s euphoric power-surge and the Ice Age balladry of 'Hoppípola' tap into the same exquisitely modern sense of simultaneous connectedness and disconnection that Orbital defined when they titled 'Halcyon (and On and On)' after their mother's brand of tranquillizers."
Ponce. NEXT!
The Sunday Times:
"If they so choose, Sigur Ros can give U2 a run for exhilarating, crash-bang rock."
Wow, U2? Seriously?
The Wire:
"Takk embodies all the negative qualities extended way beyond their natural span; it mistakes an ability to think big for an ability to engage an audience; and far from pushing at boundaries it merely creates boundaries of its own. What began as an intriguing Icelandic mixof abstraction and emotion has ended up sounding like an indie Last Night of the Proms."
See this guy? He's the one telling the truth. I love Sigur Ros, I really do. But Takk only has three good songs, and one of them is a Mogwai rip-off. I was tempted to put said three songs on here for you all to download and say "Hooray! Myspazz.com just saved me twelve quid", but I don't think EMI would've liked that, and I stopped being rebellious a few weeks ago when I realised that my parents were cooler than me.
Anyway, you don't have to listen to me, because apparently I hate anything happy anyway. Which is probably true.
4 comments:
This person: is fucking WRONG.
Pete xxx
Is that true, about the only three good songs thing? I was going to buy it.
Jules
And while we're on the subject of music, I am going to recommend Bell Orchestre to you all. (www.bellorchestre.com- Ingenius!)There. I did it.
I think Takk is mostly rubbish, yeah. But everyone except The Wire and my dad seem to disagree with me, so, y'know.
I will listen to Bell Orchestre in just a moment.
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