The second part of Dronæment's double CD "Fields [1]/Fields [2]" has subtleties interlaced within its three long tracks that take the listener by surprise, and make engaging with the sounds presented here a pleasure. The album sometimes suffers from its nearly hour-length--there are occasional spaces where the music is not as interesting as on other parts of the album, and many of the songs' strengths rely on the tone of the instruments involved and how those tones fit in with the field recordings used. On the first track, "The Kids are not Alright," a dark-sounding synth works beautifully, but wobbly sci-fi effects can detract from the overall sound. The CD's second piece, "Some Frozen Minutes," involves layered field recordings of birds, children playing, a church bell ringing, dogs barking in the distance, and amusingly, a car driving by blaring what sounds like an Alanis Morrisette song out of its open windows, lending a feeling of detachment to the music and making the listener into a sort of observer of an imaginary scene. Long synth and organ drones that begin after several minutes of field recordings add real beauty to the track; a similar effect--the subtle combination of organ with recordings of nature--is used in an even more beautiful way on the next piece, "Birds n' Organs Live Tonight," in which the organ lines shift harmonies over a drone, while densely overdubbed recordings of birds chirping sets a fast rhythm to the song; the places on the album where these two elements--the organs and synths themselves, and feeling of listening in on various human and animal elements within an environment going about their day, respectively--really make the album worth spending time with. 8/10 -- Jordan Anderson (21 April, 2010)