Volcano Suns - The Bright Orange Years (1985)

By the time Boston’s Mission of Burma split in 1983, the postpunk pioneer had only a modest discography to its credit but had already made an enormous contribution to an ambitious new strain of American rock combining a DIY ethos with more tuneful and cognitive arrangements. Though he sang a fraction of Burma’s catalog, drummer Peter Prescott surprised many fans when he emerged as the only Burma member to continue in a similar vein, starting with Volcano Suns.

Following Merge Records’ anthologizing of fellow Bostonites Big Dipper last March, a Volcano Suns retrospective seems appropriate enough. The trio’s first two LPs, The Bright Orange Years and All-Night Lotus Party—originally released in ’85 and ’86, respectively, on Homestead Records—capture the band at its peak. Together, they’re an indicative slab of 1980s guitar-driven college rock that could inconspicuously slip onto a playlist between Hüsker Dü’s New Day Rising and R.E.M.’s Murmur.

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