Bright Flight

Bright Flight is a studio album by indie-rock group Silver Jews, released in 2001.[6][9]

Bright Flight
Studio album by Silver Jews
Released	November 20, 2001
Recorded	Hum Depot, Berry Hill, TN
Genre	Indie rock
Length	35:18
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
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Drowned in Sound	6/10[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[6]
Pitchfork Media	8.5/10[7]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]
Stylus Magazine	B[3]

"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 where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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"	Blake Mevis Dean Dillon Frank Dycus	2:44
10.	"Death of an Heir of Sorrows"		2:35
Total length:			35:18

References

1. "Silver Jews - Bright Flight | Drag City". www.dragcity.com.
2. "Silver Jews - Bright Flight (CD) | Domino Mart". Domino Recording Company.
3. "Silver Jews - Bright Flight - Stylus Magazine". stylusmagazine.com.
4. "Bright Flight - Silver Jews | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
5. "Album Review: Silver Jews - Bright Flight". DrownedInSound.
6. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 7: MUZE. pp. 456–457.CS1 maint: location (link)
7. "Silver Jews: Bright Flight". Pitchfork.
8. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 735.
9. "Silver Jews". www.furious.com.
10. Aizlewood, Reviews by John; Mulholland, Garry; Simpson, Dave; Sullivan, Caroline; Lynskey, Dorian; Clarke, Betty; Wyse, Pascal (February 22, 2002). "Mississippi belter" – via www.theguardian.com.
11. Wilson, Kathleen. "The Gift of Travel". The Stranger.
12. "Silver Jews". Trouser Press. Retrieved 10 January 2021.