Bright (American band)

Bright
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts
Genres	Post-rock
Instrument(s)	Vocals, accordion, clarinet, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes, mandolin musical keyboard, steel-string acoustic guitar
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Ba Da Bing! Strange Attractors Audio House Darla Records

Bright is a post-rock and ambient music group based in Brooklyn, New York.[1]

History

Bright self-released a cassette before signing deals with two independent labels, Ba Da Bing! Records and Darla Records, and releasing records alternately on both labels. Darla released their 1997 full-length An Albatross Guest House and Bright's 1998 contribution to the Bliss Out series, Blue Christian, while Ba Da Bing! released a self-titled 1996 album, Full Negative or Breaks in 2000,[2] and The Miller Fantasies in 2002, as well as a 2003 compilation called A Music Sampler.[3] Switching to the Strange Attractors label, they released the album Bells Break their Towers in 2005,[4] their latest album to date.

Discography

LP recordings

• Bright (1995 cassette-only release on Eek, limited to 100 copies)
• Bright (1996 release on Ba Da Bing!)
• The Albatross Guest House (1997 release on Darla)
• Blue Christian (1998 release that also served as Bright's contribution to the Bliss Out series on Darla)
• Full Negative (or) Breaks (2000 release on Ba Da Bing!)
• The Miller Fantasies (2002 release on Ba Da Bing!)
• Bells Break Their Towers (2005 release on Strange Attractors)

Singles, EPs and compilations

• V/A Dreamboat "Cecilia" (1997 release on Cassiel Records)
• Fuxa / Bright "City and Metro" and "How I Reached Home" (1997 split 7-inch on Darla Records)
• "Plymouth Rock" b/w "Superstrings," "Nova" (1998 7-inch on Ba Da Bing!)
• V/A Badaboom Gramophone, Vol. 2 (1998 release on Ba Da Bing!)
• V/A Darla 100 (2000 release on Darla)
• V/A Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish: A Tribute to Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (2003 release on Animal World)
• V/A Yeti No. 4 (2006 Yeti Magazine CD compilation)

References

1. "Music | BRIGHT". 2007-09-30. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
2. Review of Full Negative or Breaks Exclaim!, December 2000.
3. Review of A Music Sampler, Ink 19, March 27, 2003.
4. Review of Bells Break Their Towers, Pitchfork Media, January 2, 2006.

External links

• Band bio from Strange Attractors Audio House
• Feature on Mark Dwinell from the Boston Phoenix
• Bright at AllMusic
• Bright discography at Discogs