except mílanó sigur rós and amina (j þ birgisson, o p dýrason, g holm, k sveinsson, h ársælsdóttir, ó j kjartansdóttir, e ólafsdóttir, m h m sigfúsdóttir, s sumarliðadóttir) I like to think of Takk... and the band's earlier album () as one story. () represents winter, with its cold, sad sound, and Takk... represents spring, with its warm, upbeat, hopeful sound. The artwork of () is white and cold, while the artwork of this album includes birds flying in all directions and trees covered in leaves. It would be impossible for me to choose one of these albums over the other. They are very different albums and, in my eyes, are both classics. This is truely one of the most beautiful, awe inspiring, honest pieces of work I have heard in the last few years. It is as if the music incompasses you with a gigantic bubble and transports you to a far away place that just is. It is an incredible piece of musicianship. Dynamic and vibrant. Tight and well produced. Well written above that. What I especially like about this album over their previous is the fact that many of the themes and motifs are not as repeative as say on () where the last half of the album feels like the same song over and over and over and over again. Although the overall album is quite soft, their are bits of pieces here and there that are surprisingly rough and distorted. The second song is one of the few pieces of music that will actually bring tears to my eyes.

These versions consist of the remastered album on 2 x vinyl and additional 12” vinyl of B-sides and rarities, including the Jacobs Studio sessions (recorded circa 2000), which are being made available for the first time. orri: “it takes a long time to get to the point. it just feels normal to us. we are doing it at our pace. it feels right to us to do it that way.”georg: “we write like you know twenty songs one month and we would remember three of them. sometimes we would just come in and play the same three chords or whatever, the same loop or the same riff for an hour. and i think that when we were writing the songs for this record we just came in and we all felt like we were doing something new. we are starting fresh, we had done the last record, we had toured it; it’s over and done with. it’s like almost four years of the same songs. so, it was like leaving something behind and starting over again.” An extended Sæglópur EP was released, featuring three new songs. The EP also included a DVD with all three music videos.

Takk was the one where they finally got happy, albeit in their own inimitable and deeply inscrutable, north Atlantic way. This is the record that gave the world Hoppípolla, a song which cemented Sigur Rós’s reputation for being the go-to band for anyone wanting a sense of wonderful possibility in their film/TV show. The record also harboured moments of definitive Sigur Rós drama in singles Glósóli and Sæglópur, and high beauty in Sé Lest and Svo Hljótt.

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in this 30 minute short film below you can listen to an interview with the band members in which they talk about each song on takk individually. the band tells us about the origin, inspiration, recording process, and general comments about the songs on takk. the interviews are accompanied by images of the band’s surroundings in álafoss and reykjavík. British album certifications – Sigur Rós – Takk". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 22 April 2021. georg: “when we were writing lyrics we all sat down and played the songs and listened to them to come up with ideas for lyrics. and the funny thing was that we all had the same ideas about what they were about because we could all see the same pictures in our heads. i think that heysátan was the first one that we sat down and tried to work out lyrics for. it was in a way as if somebody was dying peacefully.” kjartan: “i myself have emotionally connected to some music. that’s a very private thing for me i can’t really er… i couldn’t give that up or anything. no one can really ruin it for me because it is my thing. and i think that is very important when you are, you know, putting out music or delivering music to the world or whatever, that you don’t take that away from people. that is more like for instance when you put your song to a commercial or something and the song is going every twenty minutes on a tv stations and it is supporting a brand of some sort. that’s what really ruins music for people i think. it is just so personal, especially for people that are young and sentimental. also i think that people maybe forget it as well. you know that is these emotions that kind of are bound with the music.”

Hermes, Will (October 2005). "Sigur Rós: Takk..." Spin. 21 (10): 140–42 . Retrieved 12 January 2016. orri: “it’s just a happy song. there is so much life in it. its very up beat and that’s nice. we’ve been joking that it could be an old coca cola advert or something like that.” Matt laminated inner sleeve with die cut cover holding 3 x printed inner bags with gloss varnish detailing Cromelin, Richard (4 September 2005). "Directions, lost and found". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 12 January 2016. Sigur Rós reissue Takk on their own label Krunk. Their award winning highly lauded 4th studio album features the singles and fan favourites Glósóli, Hoppípolla and Sæglópur. Takk has been out of print for over a decade in the UK and is sold out world-wide. The record went Platinum in the UK and gold in the US.kjartan: “with heysátan my idea of it after we wrote it, was that there was an old man looking over his field, a big view over the sea or something, and he is dying. he is going to die. he is just lying on the grass, and he is going to die, but that is fine because he has had a good life. he is quite happy dying, actually. and that is what the song is to me. it’s kind of that emotion.” kjartan: “hoppípolla is the only song that we didn’t write together in the pool. it was all done up here in the control room. we had a loop and we built a song about our endless loop – the loop in the beginning of the song. i’m not going to tell you where that loop is from.”

Jam, James (12 September 2005). "Sigur Ros: Takk". NME. Archived from the original on 24 March 2013 . Retrieved 27 November 2011.

georg: “i think that we have surprised ourselves with a lot of the songs on the record. erm.. i wasn’t very surprised with hoppípolla because i think it really sounds like us. it started off as a tiny little sound bite and then became the song.” jónsi: “mílanó is especially long. it is kind of more like a jam session or something. or you know… an organised jam session.” kjartan: “we kind of had to restrain ourselves with the celesta, i feel. we could have gone much further with it. we had an orchestral bass drum in it and we had loads more stuff than there is now… it was kind of a studio song though we can play it live. we have added so many important orchestral bits on it so on… it might be hard.”