SIGUR ROS "TAKK" Deluxe 200 gram 2xLP & ETCHED 10" (LIMITED 3 vinyl set) Mogwai

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Sigur Ros - Takk
Remastered and repressed on 200 gram heavyweight vinyl using direct metal mastering (DMM) at Abbey Road. This reissue contains the same deluxe gatefold sleeve and etched 10" record as the original version.

Limited to 1000 copies.
Record Label: Smekkleysa ?– SM119LP
CONDITION OF THE VINYL:  I'm the original owner and I may have only listened to the A side of this LP, nothing more. Check pictures. CONDITION OF THE RECORD COVER:  Perfect all around. I'll make sure this will be packed properly so it arrives the way you see it. See pics for condition
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Detailed item info

Album Features

UPC: 094633725218

Artist: Sigur Rós

Format: Vinyl

Release Year: 2005

Record Label: EMI Music Distribution

Genre: Post Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing

1. Takk

2. Glosoli

3. Hoppipolla

4. Meo Bloonasir

5. Se Lest

6. Saeglopur

7. Molano

8. Gong

9. Andvari

10. Svo Hljott

11. Heysatan

Details

Distributor: MSI Music Distribution

Recording Type: Studio

Recording Mode: Stereo

SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes

U.K. edition.

For its fourth full-length studio album, Sigur Ros returns to the sound that made the Icelandic ensemble an internationally renowned rock band. Whereas the group's first outing, VON, was dark and heavy, and 2002's () was often ambient and drone-driven, TAKK...sees Jonsi Birgisson and the lads revisiting the chiming, soaring aesthetic of AGAETIS BYRJUN, the quartet's acclaimed breakthrough record. On this 2005 disc, Sigur Ros's melodies and rhythms ebb and flow beautifully, occasionally building to fierce, guitar-laden crests. Birgisson's high, wispy vocals are still key to the band's sound, but the foursome's intuitive instrumental work, which is highlighted by atmospheric keyboards and pounding percussion, truly carries these songs, resulting in a potent, mesmerizing album.

Editorial Reviews

...[T]he thundering majesty of harder tracks...finds its strings-laden counterpart in the swooning, slow-mo abstraction that makes up the bulk of this disc... - Grade: A-

Entertainment Weekly 

4 stars out of 5 - [E]motionally seductive....Dark clouds of intensity gather and then slowly disperse, leaving a crystalline calm.

Uncut 

3.5 out of 5 stars - ...TAKK... suggests a far more abstract Coldplay, stripped of their stadium bombast....

Rolling Stone 

4 stars out of 5 - TAKK...delivers a mighty, crashing release of soul-wringing, meat-eating noise to resolve its complex, tension-building miniaturism.

Mojo 

TAKK's mini suites play out with typically complex beauty....Gathering tiny moments of clarity into big, breathtaking shapes that are glorious to examine from near or far.

Magnet 

Birgisson sings in tongues most of us can't comprehend, and thus he can punch emotional buttons in a strangely direct way. - Grade: A

Spin 

Ranked #27 in Mojo's The 50 Best Albums Of 2005 - A coming-of-age album from Iceland's etherealists.

Mojo 

The music's strengths lie in its sheer vastness, depicting a series of enormous peaks and crescendos before suddenly cutting back to tiny details, contrasting the hugeness of the group's full sound with the fragility of some of its elements.

The Wire 

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