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TAKKA ROCKA!


Posted by Hartley On Aug 11, 2008

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Brooklyn's very awesome Takka Takka have been making A LOT of noise lately. First of all, nary a month ago I called Takka's new album, Migration (Ernest Jenning Record Co.), a proverbial lock for my Top 10 of '08. The album is a panoramic sonic masterpiece - it's the perfect blend of The National's midnight-hour brainy boosiness, Wilco's tasteful/faux-jammy experimentation, Tears For Fear's Reagan-era spiritualism and other-worldliness, all channeled through this incredible Philip Glass-like penchant for epic minimalist arpeggios and melodies. Migration is an apt title - the record seems made for night-driving. It transports you - at once meditative and uplifting and all consuming. It's just gorgeous. The only surprise here being that for a modest little band like Takka, some big dogs in the press world seem to agree with my gushing. First came the almost-raves from Pitchfork. 7.2! The review reads like an 8.0 at least though, which is somewhat odd - don't what that's about BUT THEN THIS HAPPENED. The NY TIMES' old guard, Jon Pareles, really got behind the Takka. And now it seems this beautiful experimental (only in a vaguely Radiohead kinda way) has some real legs. We couldn't be happier.

Also, the cover art courtesy of Takka's lead singer, Gabe Levine, rules too. Check it:

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Here's "Silence" off Takka Takka's Migration out now on Ernest Jenning Record Co.:

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