Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw's Orange, which earned Attacca Quartet a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, is available on vinyl for the first time! Orange, which features six of Shaw's pieces for string quartet, is the first full-length album to exclusively feature works by Shaw and was met with great critical acclaim upon its original release in 2019.

"Completely gorgeous in so many ways," exclaimed BBC Radio 3. "It hits you everywhere, all at once." "A love letter to the string quartet," said NPR. "[W]hen you hear all the imaginative sounds on Orange, you know you're listening to the voice of a strong composer." "[T]he pieces on Orange shoot off in thrilling and unpredictable directions," wrote Pitchfork. "The music of Orange exudes joy and a sense of wildness."

Shaw describes the world she built for Orange as a garden that she and Attacca Quartet are tending. She used the group's centuries-old combination of two violins (Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga), viola (Nathan Schram), and cello (Andrew Yee) to create a rich environment where traces of what has grown there before – left by Haydn, Mozart, Ravel, Bartok, Bach, Monteverdi, and Josquin – provide nourishment for new life.

"Hints of past years' growth remain in the soil, and so the new growth has been partially shaped by the old," explains Shaw. "The colors are vivid and familiar, and the shapes of the leaves follow a pattern that you seem to know until you don't. This album is a celebration of the simple, immediate, unadorned beauty of a natural, everyday, familiar thing."