NPR MUSIC: Monthly Music Report: The 10 Best New Albums We Heard In April
NPR MUSIC: Monthly Music Report: The 10 Best New Albums We Heard In April
BY TOM HUIZENGA
“In the first album devoted solely to her compositions, Caroline Shaw's Orange is an arresting tribute to the enduring art of the string quartet. The Pulitzer winner tips her hat to revered masters like Haydn and Ravel while crafting entirely fresh language, adroitly expressed by members of the Attacca Quartet. In "Limestone & Felt," Shaw offers a striking vocabulary of sounds through pizzicato and strumming, while the idea of the refrain is explored in many guises in ‘Ritornello.’ Think string quartet music is just a fusty classical formula? Orange proves it is spectacularly alive and evolving.”
