| Bright Ideas | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Portastatic |
| Cover: | Brightideas.jpeg |
| Released: | August 23, 2005 |
| Studio: | Tiny Telephone, San Francisco |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Label: | Merge |
| Producer: | Mac McCaughan |
| Prev Title: | Summer of the Shark |
| Prev Year: | 2003 |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Be Still Please |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
Bright Ideas is Portastatic's fifth studio album. It was released on Merge Records on August 23, 2005 [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.[2]