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
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Bright Ideas is the fifth studio album by the American indie rock band Portastatic. It was released on Merge Records on August 23, 2005 [2]

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

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