LET’S ACTIVE’S EASTER PARADE
North Carolina has one of the neater state mottos around: Esse Quam Videri, To Be Rather Than To Seem. You might apply that motto to one of the Tar Heel State’s brightest musical combos, Let’s Active, whose principals are songwriter/ singer/guitarist/producer Mitch Easter and bassist/singer Faye Hunter.
LET’S ACTIVE’S EASTER PARADE
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Karen Schlosberg
North Carolina has one of the neater state mottos around: Esse Quam Videri, To Be Rather Than To Seem. You might apply that motto to one of the Tar Heel State’s brightest musical combos, Let’s Active, whose principals are songwriter/ singer/guitarist/producer Mitch Easter and bassist/singer Faye Hunter.
Easter, originally known for his knobtwisting with the likes of R.E.M., the Bongos, Pylon, the dBs and Beat Rodeo, has turned Let’s Active into a tight little vehicle for his distinctive, idiosyncratic pop songs, which are melodic, textured, haunting and nearly irresistible.
The EP afoot was the first waxing from the band (then a three-piece, with Easter, Hunter and drummer Sara Romweber, who left last fall “for the usual reasons”), released in the fall of ’83. It was a fairly light, pop-styled work that garnered a lot of progressive radio play, especially the songs “Every Word Means No” and “Room With A View.”