Microscope (album)

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]

Microscope
Studio album by Riz MC
Released	31 January 2011[1]
Genre	Hip hop
Length	35:49
Label	Confirm/Ignore[1]
Producer	Lazersonic Redinho
Riz MC chronology
Microscope (2011) The Long Goodbye (2020)
Singles from Microscope
"Radar" Released: 2008

Critical reception

Professional ratings

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

2011 original edition

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

2012 reissue edition

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

References

1. "MICroscope by Riz MC". iTunes. Archived from the original on 1 July 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
2. "Riz MC". Tru Thoughts. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
3. "MICroscope". Tru Thoughts. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
4. "Microscope by Riz MC". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
5. Kennedy, Adam (2011). "Riz MC - MICroscope - Review". BBC. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
6. Kennedy, Adam (2012). "Riz MC - MICroscope - Review". BBC. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
7. Bass, George (25 February 2011). "Riz MC: MICroscope (Confirm/Ignore; 2011)". Cokemachineglow. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
8. Haughton, Jermaine (30 January 2011). "Album: Riz MC, MICroscope (Confirm / Ignore)". The Independent. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
9. Fox, Killian (17 June 2012). "Riz MC: MICroscope – review". The Observer. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
10. Gilgrass, Will (12 June 2012). "Riz MC - 'Microscope'". NME. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
11. Langhoff, Josh (14 August 2012). "Riz MC: MICroscope". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2015.

External links

• Microscope at Discogs (list of releases)