Big Plans for Everybody by Let's Active

Big Plans for Everybody, Let's Active's second album, came out on I.R.S. Records in 1986, and it's Mitch Easter's show from top to bottom: he wrote every song and produced the record himself at Drive-In, his own studio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Easter was better known for his work behind the board than in front of the mic, and here he turned all that know-how on his own band, stacking guitars that chime and shimmer like wind chimes in a thunderstorm.

It was also the first Let's Active record made after drummer Sara Romweber's exit in 1984, with Angie Carlson now in the ranks on guitar and keyboards. The daily papers couldn't agree on it. The Chicago Tribune heard something Southern, quirky and neo-psychedelic, and the New York Times admired the way Easter bent pop phrasing out of shape around words both puzzled and gloomy, while the Philadelphia Inquirer grumbled that he spent too much time saluting the Beatles.

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