Bright Ideas
| Bright Ideas | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | August 23, 2005 | |||
| Studio | Tiny Telephone, San Francisco | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Label | Merge | |||
| Producer | Mac McCaughan | |||
| Portastatic chronology | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 83/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Alternative Press | [3] |
| Now |  [4] |
| Paste | [5] |
| Pitchfork | 6.9/10[6] |
| PopMatters | 8/10[7] |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | [8] |
| Under the Radar | 6/10[9] |
Bright Ideas is the fifth studio album by the American indie rock band Portastatic. It was released on Merge Records on August 23, 2005 [10]
The album was the first Portastatic album that was completely recorded in a modern studio. Previous albums were either partially or completely recorded on a Portastudio 4-track recorder. The album was recorded at Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco, California and engineered by Tim Mooney.[11]
Track listing
- "Bright Ideas"
- "Through With People"
- "White Wave"
- "I Wanna Know Girls"
- "Little Fern"
- "Truckstop Cassettes"
- "The Soft Rewind"
- "Registered Ghost"
- "Center of the World"
- "Full of Stars"
Notes
- ^ "Reviews for Bright Ideas by Portastatic". Metacritic. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ Both exhilaratingly rocking and gorgeously pensive. [Nov 2005, p.210]
- ^ "PORTASTATIC - Bright Ideas". Now. September 14, 2005. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
- ^ Every track here is strong.... Portastatic's best yet. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.122]
- ^ Stosuy, Brandon (August 28, 2005). "Bright Ideas - Portastatic". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
- ^ Staff, PopMatters (September 11, 2005). "Portastatic: Bright Ideas". PopMatters. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
- ^ "Portastatic - Bright Ideas". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
- ^ While McCaughan retains a lot of his vitality, he can't completely shake off the specter of comfortable maturity. [#11, p.116]
- ^ "AllMusic.com"
- ^ ""Merge Records Website."". Archived from the original on January 1, 2011. Retrieved November 10, 2010.