| Open | ||||
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| Released | 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
| Genre | Improvised music | |||
| Length | 68:05 | |||
| Label | Fish of Milk | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Mojo |   [2] |
| Spin | 8/10[3] |
| Tiny Mix Tapes |  [4] |
Open is the twelfth album by Australian improvised music trio The Necks, first released on the Fish of Milk label in 2013 in Australia and on the ReR label internationally.
Open is a return to the hour-long ambient improvisation of earlier albums which made The Necks famous.
- ^ "Reviews for Open by The Necks". Metacritic. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^ Open's success lies in its final effect on the listener, an enveloping state of reassuring calm. [Dec 2013, p.84]
- ^ Currin, Grayson. "The Necks Bend Space and Time With the Ambient-Jazz Triumph 'Open'". Spin. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^ Chandler, Simon. "The Necks - Open". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 16 November 2019.