Bright Flight

For the Missouri scholarship program, see Bright Flight (Missouri scholarship).

Bright Flight is the fourth 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

No.	Title	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"	2:44
10.	"Death of an Heir of Sorrows"	2:35
Total length:		35:18

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

Personnel

Musicians

• David Berman - lead vocals, guitar
• Cassie Berman - vocals on "Slow Education", "Let's Not and Say We Did", and "Tennessee", bass
• William Tyler - guitar, vocals on "Let's Not and Say We Did"
• Mike Fellows - bass
• Tim Barnes - drums, percussion
• Paul Niehaus - pedal steel guitar
• Tony Crow - piano, organ, electric piano, synthesizer, vocals on "Let's Not and Say We Did" and "Friday Night Fever"

Additional Personnel

• Hilary Small - artwork
• Mark Nevers - engineer, producer
• Mike Fellows - assistant producer

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. Archived from the original on 2021-01-12. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
6. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. pp. 456–457.
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". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
11. Wilson, Kathleen. "The Gift of Travel". The Stranger.
12. "Silver Jews". Trouser Press. Retrieved 10 January 2021.