"Aheym, Dessner's 2013 collaboration with contemporary- classical hip-uncle figures the Kronos Quartet features four pieces written specifically for Kronos and begins with all four members digging into their strings and producing hard, sinewy sforzandos, or sudden, violent accents, before subsiding quickly into an agitated, seething hum. The cello plays lopsided arpeggios, each one nervously edging forward, while pizzicato prickles tension higher. It is fierce, vivid music..."

• 1 Aheym
• 2 Little Blue Something
• 3 Tenebre
• 4 Tour Eiffel