Bright Flight

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Bright Flight
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 20, 2001
RecordedHum Depot, Berry Hill, TN
Genre Indie rock
Length35:18
Label Drag City [1]
Domino Recording Company [2]
Producer Mark Nevers [3]
Silver Jews chronology
American Water
(1998)
Bright Flight
(2001)
Tanglewood Numbers
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Drowned in Sound 6/10 [5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Pitchfork Media 8.5/10 [7]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Stylus Magazine B [3]

Bright Flight is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Silver Jews, released in 2001. [6] [9]

Contents

"Tennessee" was chosen as the title track for an EP that also included "Long Long Gone", "I'm Gonna Love The Hell Out of You", and "Turn Your Guns Around".

Critical reception

The Guardian wrote: "Fusing gorgeous, tear-sodden country melodies with lyrics that inspire love and anxiety in equal measure, Bright Flight poetically captures a drunken night spent contemplating suicide while staring at the Nashville skyline." [10] The Stranger wrote that "the stories told and the places visited are rich with radiant imagery--not always happy, but encouraging in their pure, honest existence." [11] Trouser Press wrote that the album "is not, on the whole, as agreeably encompassing as American Water, it is the work of an artist increasingly able to get to the emotional heart of a song without relying on the crutches of irony and overt cleverness." [12]

Track listing

All tracks are written by David Berman, except "Friday Night Fever", written by Blake Mevis, Dean Dillon and Frank Dycus

No.TitleLength
1."Slow Education"3:07
2."Room Games and Diamond Rain"4:34
3."Time Will Break the World"3:17
4."I Remember Me"5:32
5."Horseleg Swastikas"3:20
6."Transylvania Blues"3:03
7."Let's Not and Say We Did"2:59
8."Tennessee"4:10
9."Friday Night Fever"2:44
10."Death of an Heir of Sorrows"2:35
Total length:35:18

Personnel

Musicians

Additional Personnel

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