Bright Ideas

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Professional ratings
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Metacritic83/100[1]
Review scores
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AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[2]
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Pitchfork6.9/10[6]
PopMatters8/10[7]
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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"

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."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. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."PORTASTATIC - Bright Ideas". Now. September 14, 2005. Archived from the original on June 17, 2006. Retrieved April 27, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ Every track here is strong.... Portastatic's best yet. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.122]
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stosuy, Brandon (August 28, 2005). "Bright Ideas - Portastatic". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Staff, PopMatters (September 11, 2005). "Portastatic: Bright Ideas". PopMatters. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."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. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.""Merge Records Website."". Archived from the original on January 1, 2011. Retrieved November 10, 2010.

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