Microscope (album)
2011 studio album by Riz MC
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Microscope (stylized as MICroscope) is the debut studio album by Riz Ahmed, released under the moniker Riz MC.[2] It was originally released on 31 January 2011.[1] It was re-released on Tru Thoughts on 18 June 2012.[3]
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Critical reception
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 74/100[4] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| BBC | favorable[5][6] |
| Cokemachineglow | 83%[7] |
| The Independent | favorable[8] |
| The Observer |   [9] |
| NME | 6/10[10] |
| PopMatters | [11] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[4]
Josh Langhoff of PopMatters wrote, "The beats by Lazersonic and Redinho churn and pop, squeal and squirm, and Riz tries to take the edge off by cracking jokes."[11] Adam Kennedy of BBC commented that "while his flow isn't the most natural on the block, the warts'n'all streams of consciousness refuse to exclude anything on his mind."[5]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Radar" | 3:14 |
| 2. | "People Like People" | 3:18 |
| 3. | "Don't Sleep" | 3:52 |
| 4. | "Get on It" | 3:34 |
| 5. | "All in the Ghetto" | 4:09 |
| 6. | "Dark Hearts" | 3:26 |
| 7. | "Bubble Wrapped" | 3:43 |
| 8. | "All of You" | 3:46 |
| 9. | "Hundreds & Thousands" | 2:33 |
| 10. | "Sour Times" | 4:14 |
| Total length: | 35:49 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sonic Warfare" (skit 1) | 1:23 |
| 2. | "Radar" | 3:13 |
| 3. | "People Like People" | 3:17 |
| 4. | "Don't Sleep" | 3:52 |
| 5. | "Sonic Virus" (skit 2) | 0:54 |
| 6. | "Get on It" | 3:34 |
| 7. | "All in the Ghetto" | 4:10 |
| 8. | "Dark Hearts" | 3:26 |
| 9. | "Sonic Vaccine" (skit 3) | 1:12 |
| 10. | "Bubble Wrapped" | 3:43 |
| 11. | "All of You" | 3:46 |
| 12. | "The Resistance" (skit 4) | 0:32 |
| 13. | "Hundreds & Thousands" | 2:36 |
| 14. | "Sour Times" | 4:19 |
| 15. | "Get on It" (True Tiger remix) | 4:43 |
| 16. | "All of You" (Rack 'n' Ruin remix) | 4:07 |
| 17. | "Radar" (Sukh Knight remix) | 4:41 |
| 18. | "Hundreds & Thousands" (Zed Bias remix) | 4:52 |
| 19. | "All of You" (dBridge's sound system mix) | 5:20 |
| 20. | "Hundred & Thousands" (Baobinga jit step remix) | 3:37 |
| 21. | "Dark Hearts" (30k 30k remix) | 5:07 |
| 22. | "All of You" (featuring Aruba and Plan B) | 3:45 |
| Total length: | 76:09 | |