Open (The Necks album)

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Open
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Studio album by
Released2013
Recorded2013
Genre Improvised music
Length68:05
Label Fish of Milk
The Necks chronology
Mindset
(2011)
Open
(2013)
Vertigo
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Spin 8/10 [3]
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Open is the seventeenth album by Australian improvised music trio The Necks (twelfth excluding live and soundtrack albums), first released on the Fish of Milk label in 2013 in Australia and on the ReR label internationally.

Contents

Open is a return to the hour-long ambient improvisation of earlier albums which made The Necks famous.

Track listing

  1. "Open" - 68:05
All compositions by the Necks

Personnel

References

  1. "Reviews for Open by The Necks". Metacritic . Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  2. Open's success lies in its final effect on the listener, an enveloping state of reassuring calm. [Dec 2013, p.84]
  3. Currin, Grayson. "The Necks Bend Space and Time With the Ambient-Jazz Triumph 'Open'". Spin . Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  4. Chandler, Simon. "The Necks - Open". Tiny Mix Tapes . Retrieved 16 November 2019.