SIGHTLINES: A New Music Party Mix for the End of the Decade
SIGHTLINES: A New Music Party Mix for the End of the Decade
BY NICHOLAS PERRY CLARK
“8) Plan & Elevation: IV. The Orangery | Caroline Shaw | Attacca Quartet | 2019 | 2’
The real gems on this album, Orange, are the longer works Entracté and Ritornello 2.sq.2.j.a, but if you’re looking for a shorter track for your new music holiday party, I recommend a track from Caroline Shaw’s suite for string quartet called Plan and Elevation. Attacca Quartet dedicates this entire album to works of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Shaw, and their interpretation of her output is unmatched. If you like hip, icy new music with no indulgent vibrato and phrases that ebb, flow, rise, and sink, this is the string quartet album for you. And then listen to this recently released video of Shaw singing her own song, And So, with Attacca.”