Full Negative (Or) Breaks

Bright's newest effort, Full Negative (or) Breaks, is the duo's fourth album, and the first since 1998's Blue Christian. For the new album, Bright has returned to the studio with engineer Jacques Cohen -- the man responsible for the expansive sound of their self titled debut in 1996. Using the same compositional process as on their two previous home-recorded albums, Bright's songs begin as in-studio improvisations, the best of which are overdubbed and shaped into their fully realized forms. Full Negative (or) Breaks is their most cohesive, engaging, and melodically inspired work -- an eclectic mix of macho guitar driven improvs, minimalist pop-vocal song structures, spacious insrumental arrangements, and a smattering of free jazz wig-out. The songs reflect Bright's enthusiasm for artists like Sun Ra, Faust, Neil Young, John Fahey, electric era Miles Davis, and of course, the innumerable monsters of Classic American Indie Rock.