Bright (American band)

Bright
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

^ "Music | BRIGHT". 2007-09-30. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
^ Review of Full Negative or Breaks Exclaim!, December 2000.
^ Review of A Music Sampler, Ink 19, March 27, 2003.
^ 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

[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.

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