These Open Fields is the second 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 The Flashbulb (real name, 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...

). The album displays a significant maturation from the first release, M³

M³ (album)

M³ is the first album from The Flashbulb . Stylistically, this album is very straightforward and Jordan's direct influences of fellow intelligent dance music artists such as Aphex Twin and Squarepusher are much more apparent than in subsequent releases.-Track listing:# "Porn Joke P" – 2:30# "Dance...

. 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

Alphabasic Records

Alphabasic Records is an independent record label started in 1999 by electronic musician Benn Jordan and Mark Hall. In 2007, Jordan bought out his partners and larger related label Sublight Records, pulled the albums from all record and digital distributors, and uploaded them to torrent sites with...

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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

Resent and the April Sunshine Shed

Resent and the April Sunshine Shed is the fourth official full-length release from electronic music producer Benn Jordan as The Flashbulb.This album features a range of new instrumentation added to Jordan's list...

, the song features sitar

Sitar

The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...

, used on the latter album.