Takk… by Sigur Ros

Takk..., Sigur Rós's fourth studio album, arrived on 12 September 2005, a day later in America through Geffen, and its title is Icelandic for "thanks", which feels about right: the Reykjavík band that broke through with Ágætis byrjun sound almost giddy here. Jónsi's falsetto still soars in Icelandic and the band's invented Vonlenska, his bowed guitar still moans like whale song, but the arrangements swell toward sunlight, with Kjartan Sveinsson's keyboards, Georg Hólm's bass and Orri Páll Dýrason's drums building from a hush to a roar.

"Glósóli" is the showstopper, a slow-building march that finally bursts wide open. It entered the Billboard 200 at number 27, with 30,000 copies gone in the first week.

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