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░▒ Artist ............: Portastatic
░ Album .............: Bright Ideas
░ Label .............: Merge
▄ Genre .............: Indie
Rip date ..........: Aug-23-2005
Street date .......: Aug-23-2005
Size ..............: 62,5 MB
Type ..............: Album
Time ..............: 41:37 min
Quality ...........: VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
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01. Bright Ideas [05:18]
02. Center of the World [04:06]
03. Full of Stars [03:48]
04. I Wanna Know Girls [04:56]
05. Little Fern [03:16]
06. Registered Ghost [04:19]
07. The Soft Rewind [03:53]
08. Through with People [03:16]
09. Truckstop Cassettes [04:54]
10. White Wave [03:51]
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Portastatic's Bright Ideas might just be their
best record yet. Seeing as how the track record
of Mac McCaughan's group is scattered with
nothing but low-key gem after gem, that is high
praise. It is the first full album he has
released since his main band, Superchunk, went
into the clichΘd realm of indefinite hiatus, and
while only Mac knows if any of these songs could
have ended up as Superchunk songs, if they had
the record they appeared on would have been
hailed as a triumphant return to form. (Not that
they really ever slumped anywhere except in the
eyes of the indie press.) Those are really side
issues though because all that really matters
here is how wonderful Bright Ideas is. Broken
into equal parts introspective and beautiful
ballads and jumping rockers, the record is at
once lively as heck and full of poetic insight.
It feels like the product of a teenage heart and
an adult (with kids) mind. As usual the music
(as played by a core group of fellow
Superchunker Jim Wilbur on bass and Matthew
McCaughan on drums) is tighter than Tim Duncan
on the free throw line during the NBA finals.
McCaughan's vocals are pushed to the point of
breaking, though he is able to apply the brakes
now and then, and his lyrics are intimate,
always interesting, and often hilarious.
Basically everything you've come to expect from
a McCaughan product but with some slight
improvements. Songs like "Little Fern" and "I
Wanna Know Girls" are more tender than anything
McCaughan has issued while up-tempo rockers like
"Through With People" and "The Soft Rewind" are
as peppy and catchy as anything the Chunk ever
did. Head and shoulders above everything is the
awesome "Truckstop Cassettes," an elegiac tale
of a love-struck and life-changing road trip set
to a calmly rolling rhythm caressed by a
melancholy violin, acoustic guitars and bass,
cheap keyboards, and Mac's sweet-as-cherry-pie
vocals. When his best songs are rounded up, it
will be right up near the front with the likes
of "Driveway to Driveway," "My Noise," and
"Hello Hawk." The simple fact that Mac continues
to release solid albums after so many years of
writing and recording is impressive. That he is
still releasing records as sparkling,
emotionally involving, and memorable as Bright
Ideas is nothing short of miraculous.
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You can depend on your friends in FAiNT to continue to bring
you the best in punk and metal related genres. All we care
about is getting great music to the masses, so people can
support independent artists when they come to town. FNT will
not stop doing what we can to keep real punk, hardcore,
indie and metal alive in 2005. We expect that you do the
same with your local scene.
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