These Open Fields

These Open Fields
Studio album by The Flashbulb
Released June 2001
Re-release: September 2002
Recorded ????
Genre IDM
Length 44:14
Re-release: 46:48
Label Alphabasic Records
Re-release: Suburban Trash/Bonnerwachs
Producer Benn Jordan
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The Flashbulb chronology
M³
(2000)		 These Open Fields
(2001)		 Girls.Suck.But.YOU.Don't
(2003)

These Open Fields is the second official full-length release from Chicago intelligent dance music (IDM) artist The Flashbulb (real name, Benn Jordan). The album displays a significant maturation from the first release, M³. The album has a central theme, unlike the playful experimentation of M³. Inspired by the death of Jordan's grandfather, it has a darker, more coherent tone.

This was the unofficial first release on Jordan's struggling new upstart label, Alphabasic.

Track listing

  1. "I Wish I Had Died That Day" – 3:08
  2. "Sunrise Dramamine" – 3:13
  3. "Last June" – 1:40
  4. "Last August" – 1:04
  5. "I Can Smell You on My Bed" – 2:06
  6. "Glowing Green Eyes" – 1:03
  7. "Wait for Me" – 0:49
  8. "I Wake Up Clueless" – 2:17
  9. "Warren" – 1:30
  10. "Pippin" – 2:16
  11. "I Am An Unbreakable Shard of Glass" – 1:01
  12. "Taste My Solitude" – 2:15
  13. "Color Tree" – 1:35
  14. "Joking About Killing Yourself" – 3:46
  15. "Thump, Cry" – 1:30
  16. "Dead on Arrival" – 1:17
  17. "Eleven Ways to End the Pain" – 3:44
  18. "The Nicest Day Spent Inside" – 3:39
  19. "This is the End of Everything" – 3:56
  20. "These Open Fields" – 2:25

Re-release

These Open Fields (second edition), released September 2002, adds "Taste My Solitude (Longhair Mix)" 2:44 to the end of the album. Its release coinciding with the recording of Resent and the April Sunshine Shed, the song features sitar, used on the latter album.

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