Sigur Rós - ‘Takk…’

Not unreasonably the band reacted by going deeper underground. In the time between 'Ágætis Byrjun''s appearance in Iceland and its final release in Japan, nearly three years later, the group toured relentlessly, avoiding the boredom of endlessly playing the album by road testing new material, also to near destruction, such that when they came to record a follow-up record, they were in effect already done with the songs.

The resultant untitled '( )' album was a struggle to record, with the band chasing mythical live versions of its dark material, with little more resolve than finally getting the thing done and dusted, while they struggled with their newly built swimming pool studio just outside of Reykjavik. If 'Agaetis Byrjun' had been flooded with light and on occasion almost Disney-esque hope, then '( )' was, more often than not, a journey down a long dark tunnel with only a flickering candle for company.
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