Girls.Suck.But.YOU.Don't is the third official full-length release from Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music is a term that describes an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s. The genre is influenced by a wide range of musical styles particularly electronic dance music such as Detroit Techno...

 (IDM) artist Benn Jordan

Benn Jordan

Benn Lee Jordan is an American modern jazz and electronica musician operating under many pseudonyms. Since 1999 his most widely distributed and eclectic music has been released under the name of The Flashbulb...

, also known as The Flashbulb.

The subtitle of the record reads "15 tracks from my hard drive", and some contend that this amusing label is no misnomer

Misnomer

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. According to interviews with Jordan at the time of the record's release, an upstart Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese breakcore

Breakcore

Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...

 label by the name of Accel Muzhik contacted him earlier that year, desperate to release some of the musician's work for its own label

Record label

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. Being in no mood to release another definitive work at the time, let alone on a struggling new label like Accel Muzhik, Jordan mastered a collection of fifteen tracks from his hard drive onto CD and sent it to them. The album has received criticism by some due to the haste in which it was put together.

Critics charge that the album plays out like a kaleidoscopic, rough trip through the mind of Jordan on an off-day. The drum programming is more lax and roughly assembled on some tracks, the sequencing of the album is abrupt and scattershot, and there is no consistent theme.

Track listing

1. "Your New Human" – 1:13
2. "The Northest You Can Bring Me" – 2:07
3. "Hello Dr Db Dv" – 2:54
4. "Moving Forward" – 4:16
5. "Red Vector Acid Minute" – 1:00
6. "Awaken" – 2:28
7. "Air Nad Adrian" – 2:26
8. "Everyday Gone" – 2:39
9. "Hamlin" – 3:40
10. "Think Acid" – 2:16
11. "Counting Snow" – 0:39
12. "Floating - Spinning" – 3:09
13. "Guys Suck But I Don't" – 2:42
14. "My Cold Blue Father" – 3:59
15. ".mp3" – 3:34

External links

• The Flashbulb official site
• Accel Muzhik site