String Quartet No​.​ 1

"...making a string quartet, most hallowed of classic genres, into a source of communal variations suitable for gyrating youths in a strobe-light-lit dance club is a deliberately subversive act.

The music itself is minimalist, with much herky-jerky lurching along to a steady pulse (overlaid with many syncopations) in an amiable, dancing-robots manner...bone-dry timbres...grating dissonances ...clever, edgy, irreverent, category-violating stuff...the Elysian Quartet’s...recorded sound is up-close and hot, with lots of bite... "