Lovers

Lovers é um álbum do guitarrista Nels Cline que foi lançado em agosto de 2016 pela gravadora Blue Note. Cline afirmou " Espero que Lovers ofereça algo de uma atualização da ideia e do ideal de 'mood music', ao mesmo tempo celebrando e desafiando nossa noção icônica de romance". Recepção Na Rolling Stone, Will Hermes escreveu "An update of Fifties "mood music", this chilled-out instrumental soundtracks for breakfast in bed with mai-tais and late-night booty calls, Lovers is a departure for Wilco guitar swami Nels Cline, whose side projects generally involve free-jazz freakouts. That's not to say that this wordless double-disc set, featuring an all-star orchestra full of sharp improvisers, isn't wildly inventive in its water-colored way". Seth Colter Walls, da Pitchfork, avaliou o álbum com 7,6 de 10, dizendo: "Cline has delivered a chamber-orchestra set that’s notable for relying on some “Great American Songbook” standards by the likes of Jerome Kern and Rodgers & Hammerstein... The only task he doesn’t quite pull off is the composition of original themes that stand with the classics he’s selected. Almost half of the first CD is made up of Cline originals, and these pale a bit in comparison with the surrounding material. Though thanks to its sly and measured embrace of the experimental, Lovers still has all the originality it needs to endear". O correspondente da Blurt Adolph Alzuphar observou: "Nels Cline’s Blue Note debut Lovers is a musical bonanza: guitar, the lyrical and the experimental. And it’s monumental when the album’s band lets loose". O crítico da Allmusic Thom Jurek afirmou "Due to its extensive length and low-key demeanor, Lovers is demanding. That said, Cline's harmonic, textural, and timbral palettes deliver it as a compellingly engaging and original take on orchestral -- and by intent, conceptual -- jazz. He hears possibilities in the historical past and articulates them with timeless ardor. This may be Cline's quietest recording, but it is one of his finest". Eles também o selecionaram como um de seus Favorite Jazz Albums of 2016. Track listing All compositions by Nels Cline except where noted.