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Sigur Ros: Takk

Ben Thompson, The Observer, 21 August 2005

A ROBE-FREE polyphonic spree, a depoliticised Godspeed! You Black Emperor, a less unforgivably insipid Talk Talk, Mogwai with the heavy metal taken out, the Cocteau Twins trying to sound like Radiohead and not quite managing it, a castrati Pink Floyd performing Aled Jones's 'Walking in the Air' at a benefit gig for a reindeer which lost a leg in an unfortunate sledging accident.

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