I fell asleep leaning against a brick wall. I fell asleep with my elbows propped up on my knees while reading a magazine. I fell asleep while lying on a picnic table with my arms crushed beneath me. I fell asleep mid-conversation with Mary. Third shifts are brutal. The brutality compounded by going straight to a second job after getting out of the first. One more week…

My comments here have been usurped. This album is simply stunning. I loved the last two Sigur Ros albums in particular but this one rocks their socks. Uplifting. Ethereal. Glorious. Evocative of a bouncing through an open snow field under a star-filled winter night sky. Which I suppose would make sense coming from an Icelandic artist. The album is called Takk…