Macroscope (album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Guardian	[3]
All About Jazz	[4]
Premier Guitar	[5]

The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 4 stars out of 5, stating "while the Nels Cline Singers may have a new bass player and a new label, fortunately their sound has not changed. They're still making some of the most interesting, adventurous, genre-smashing music of the early 21st century. Guitar nerds need to check this out, but it's got wider appeal than that too".[2] The Guardian's John Fordham rated the album 3 stars out of 5, saying, "Macroscope is a blast through warped Latin music, Hendrix freakouts, double-taking George Bensonian smoothness, electronica and grunge".[3] Writing for All About Jazz, Matt Marshall stated "Since this is a Nels Cline album there are, of course, guitar solos of blistering beauty. But these moments are but part of an organic progression of an ever- roiling music, a highly reactive science experiment that might generate searing fuzz guitar from undulating beats ("Red Before Orange") or rise in a back-spinning psychedelic echo ("The Wedding Band") that replicates into an annihilating vortex of amplified noise".[4] Premier Guitar's Jason Shadrick noted "This isn’t easy music to get into—and it’s not supposed to be. Cline’s musical trick bag is always surprising, but never excessive".[5] Paste Magazine's Robert Ham called it "one of the best jazz releases of the year to date".[6]

All compositions by Nels Cline.

1. "Companion Piece" - 5:37
2. "Canales' Cabeza" - 4:23
3. "Respira" - 4:19
4. "Red Before Orange" - 4:11
5. "The Wedding Band" - 8:18
6. "Macroscopic (For Kusama-San)" - 4:01
7. "Climb Down" - 3:20
8. "Seven Zed Heaven" - 11:16
9. "Hairy Mother" - 7:10
10. "Sascha's Book of Frogs" - 5:54

The Nels Cline Singers

• Nels Cline – guitar, vocals, effects, drum programming
• Trevor Dunn – bass, effects
• Scott Amendola – drums, percussion, electronics, mbira

Additional musicians

• Cyro Baptista – percussion
• Yuka Honda – electric piano, synthesizer
• Josh Jones - congas, percussion
• Zeena Parkins – harp