Bright Ideas
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| 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 | |
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| 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]
