• Record Label: Anti
  • Release Date: Nov 5, 2013
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Magnet
    Dec 18, 2013
    90
    It's a place Dessner has visited before, both inside and outside the National, and though he's earned plenty of concert-hall cred over the last few years, these incomparable Kronos recordings represent a huge leap. [No. 105, p.56]
  2. Nov 7, 2013
    85
    Aheym is a moving work but it is also challenging: The quartet saw and slide with impeccable skill with Dessner as their captain.
  3. Uncut
    Nov 20, 2013
    80
    Not an easy listen, but an accomplished one. [Dec 2013, p.67]
  4. Nov 14, 2013
    80
    Aheym is a moving work but it is also challenging: The quartet saw and slide with impeccable skill with Dessner as their captain.
  5. 80
    Opening with urgent triplets, it settles into an elegant braiding of interlaced lines that push the music forward in waves.
  6. Nov 8, 2013
    79
    Dessner's mordant vision is uniquely his; these are real, meaty works, troubling and beautiful.
  7. Nov 7, 2013
    70
    The Kronos Quartet carries a sense of adventurism akin to Dessner’s National pals, but their instrumentals work as more of a form of action than a single piece of the atmosphere, giving Aheym a tenser feel.
  8. Nov 21, 2013
    65
    This collection of four works for string quartet is far from homely.

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