Quiver

Finnish accordion daredevil Kimmo Pohjonen joins Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto (of King Crimson) forming KTU (pronouncedK2). Quiver follows their debut 8-Armed Monkey and features Samuli Kosimen, of Iceland band MuM, and three tracks mixed by Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson. David Fricke of Rolling Stone calls them a robust tumult of Northern Lights sparkle, white-wolf guitar wail and rolling knotted thunder. Fricke writes, When I saw KTU in Europe, they were as powerful as the killer King Crimson. Pohjonen is a wonder unto himself: animating his wind song with pedals and processing; attacking the bellow with the ecstatic fury of Jimi Hendrix.