Nels ClineBest Nels Cline Albums Ranked
7.6
Avg Score
8
Opinions
5
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 8 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Nels Cline's catalog across 5 albums from 8 opinions, with an overall average of 7.6/10. The top-rated Nels Cline album is Lovers (2016) with a 8.0/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Consentrik Quartet and Instrumentals. The discography on Wavelength spans 2005 to 2025.
Instrumentals
“Yeah, singers. Like Cher. Cher sings on this album. And Madonna. And Sting. In fact, everyone who only has one name, they all sing on this album. If you didn't fall for that, good for you. The recently assembled Nels Cline Singers are guitarist Nels Cline's current touring outfit featuring Devin Hoff on contrabass and Scott Amendola on drums/electronics. And *Instrumentals*, though issuing forth ”
Lovers
“Romantic “mood music” isn’t what most listeners expect from Nels Cline, but on his Blue Note debut, the Wilco guitarist delivers a chamber-orchestra set that visits some American songbook standards.”
Consentrik Quartet
“In a new quartet of seasoned New York improvisers, the Wilco guitarist reveals his range, balancing soft duets with hard grooves and ballads with bedlam.”
Dirty Baby
“Not long ago, avant-garde music was supported mostly by academia and arts endowments. Now rock & roll has gotten into the act too. When Jeff Tweedy signed up Nels Cline to be Wilco's lead guitarist, Cline had been making balls-out, free-form jazz records. Happily, he still is, as vigorously as ever. The two-disc DIRTY BABY, his collaboration with polymath poet-producer David Breskin, is Cline's mo”
Coward
“Spinning through delicate acoustics, genre homages, abstract meditations, and electro-funk, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline offers an eclectic new LP.”
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