Bright Ideas

Not to be confused with Bright Idea.

Bright Ideas
Studio album by
Portastatic
ReleasedAugust 23, 2005
StudioTiny Telephone, San Francisco
GenreIndie rock
LabelMerge
ProducerMac McCaughan
Portastatic chronology
Summer of the Shark
(2003) 		Bright Ideas
(2005) 		Be Still Please
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic83/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Alternative Press[3]
Now[4]
Paste[5]
Pitchfork6.9/10[6]
PopMatters8/10[7]
Tiny Mix Tapes[8]
Under the Radar6/10[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

  1. "Bright Ideas"
  2. "Through With People"
  3. "White Wave"
  4. "I Wanna Know Girls"
  5. "Little Fern"
  6. "Truckstop Cassettes"
  7. "The Soft Rewind"
  8. "Registered Ghost"
  9. "Center of the World"
  10. "Full of Stars"

Notes

  1. ^ "Reviews for Bright Ideas by Portastatic". Metacritic. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  2. ^ AllMusic review
  3. ^ Both exhilaratingly rocking and gorgeously pensive. [Nov 2005, p.210]
  4. ^ "PORTASTATIC - Bright Ideas". Now. September 14, 2005. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  5. ^ Every track here is strong.... Portastatic's best yet. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.122]
  6. ^ Stosuy, Brandon (August 28, 2005). "Bright Ideas - Portastatic". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  7. ^ Staff, PopMatters (September 11, 2005). "Portastatic: Bright Ideas". PopMatters. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  8. ^ "Portastatic - Bright Ideas". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  9. ^ While McCaughan retains a lot of his vitality, he can't completely shake off the specter of comfortable maturity. [#11, p.116]
  10. ^ "AllMusic.com"
  11. ^ ""Merge Records Website."". Archived from the original on January 1, 2011. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
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