Let's Active

Mitch Easter carved his place in music history as a hip producer in the '80s, most notably for the early R.E.M. albums Murmur and Reckoning. These achievements, however, often overshadowed and distracted him from giving his full commitment to his own recording career with Let's Active, a band that, between 1983 and 1988, released some of the finest Southern power pop/jangle pop of the decade. Like R.E.M., they updated the jangly guitar sound of the Byrds for the new wave era. The personnel changed drastically, but Easter remained at the center, releasing three albums before ce...