Once a band reaches levels of jubilance and idealism that can be co-opted by the utopia of advertising, where else is there to go? We come back to Stuart Braithwaite’s thoughts on ‘epicness’. Strangely, the experientially magnificent is also fleeting and frail. How often can one be overwhelmed by music before the sensation starts to feel insincere? Takk was the music of miracle and life-changing love. To repeat the trick too soon would be to cheapen a splendour whose potency resided in its very rarity. Sigur Rós were one of several post-rock bands, like Explosions in the Sky, who reached a
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