Recently surfacing to rave reviews on tour with Tim Berne and Jim Black Nels Cine is the ultimate syncretist on Macroscope, the Singers’ fifth album where you’ll find anything from sliced and diced Hendrixiana to electronica, bossafied rock ’n’ roll and garage rock. In the company of drummer Scott Amendola, new bassist Trevor Dunn and guests including Cibo Matto keyboardist Yuka C. Honda, percussionist Cyro Baptista and electric harpist Zeena Parkins, Cline pays tribute to Japanese psychedelic artist Yayoi Kusama (a big influence on Andy Warhol) on the title track-ish ‘Macroscopic’, and opens out into an open Ribot-like space on the driving trio setting of ‘Canales’ Cabeza’ with its scintillating garage rock feel Amendola needling the guitarist into ever more elaborate detours. By the time we reach ‘Sascha’s Book of Frogs’ at the end Cline’s willingness to engage with the genre-agnostic experimental part of his musicality runs rife and makes the album even more compelling but can pose as many difficult questions as it chooses to answer.  

Released on 31 March

Nels Cline, above, centre, guests with Medeski, Martin & Wood on 6 April in west London venue Under the Bridge