Microscope (album)

"MICroscope" redirects here. For other uses, see Microscope (disambiguation).

Microscope
Studio album by Riz MC
Released	31 January 2011 (2011-01-31) [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

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]

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 . Archived from the original on 14 May 2022. 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)