Bright Ideas is Portastatic's fifth studio album. It was released on Merge Records on August 23, 2005 [2]

Bright Ideas
Studio album by
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
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

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.[3]

Track listing edit

  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 edit

  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ "AllMusic.com"
  3. ^ ""Merge Records Website."". Archived from the original on 2011-01-01. Retrieved 2010-11-10.