Three full-length studio albums into their career, turning the huge critical acclaim their discs have always attracted into commercial success (audience numbers, exposure, sales) appears to be a very real prospect.   Full text...

Sigur Ros, singing in Icelandic, show an up-tempo, melody-laden album that will floor the mass of rock music fans.  Full text...

People will be Takk-ing about this truly amazing album for years to come.   Full text...

Like most truly great music, a single listen may yield intense emotions and immense aural pleasure, multiple listens yields much more.  Full text...

It can be said that Sigur Ros's music sounds like sad, sleepy alien music-weepy ballads from another planet  Full text...

And they still sound hauntingly beautiful. The eleven songs on Takk..., a few of which are transitional pieces, each develop concurrent melody, dynamism, and swelling atmosphere to ravishing effect.  Full text...

The band's emotive repertoire isn't vastly extended; indeed, a steady diet of wistful euphoria can get wearing after a few tracks. But for an instant fix of tongue-tying prettiness, it'll do nicely.   Full text...

Takk is pretty, with an inevitable abundance of saccharine melodies soaked in color chords and cloudy ambience.  Full text...

Ordinary people. Extraordinary songs.  Full text...

Sigur Ros's sudden accessibility doesn't tarnish their mystique, but deepens and colours it.  Full text...

Takk proves that Sigur Rós can, in fact, transcend their own legend: The tendency to descend into new age goo is still present, and Takk, like all of Sigur Rós' discography, is not for the viscerally-minded.  Full text...

"Takk" is certainly the best Sigur Ros album since "Agaetis", and their sound continues to expand: this is much "rockier" work.  Full text...

Ambient's not designed to be accessible, but Sigur Rós makes ambient tunes that make peace between the style's esoteric aims and its user-friendly antithesis.  Full text...

Takk . . . is the most accessible album yet from Sigur Ros.   Full text...

After a three-year hiatus, soundtrack-bothering Icelandic dronesters Sigur Rós are back to remind us what 'epic' really means.   Full text...

Ambient's not designed to be accessible, but Sigur Rós makes ambient tunes that make peace between the style's esoteric aims and its user-friendly antithesis.  Full text...

There are plenty of people out there making music of this ilk in much more interesting and varied ways...  Full text...