ACTIV-ITY

“BIG PLANS FOR EVERYBODY.” Let’s Active. I.R.S. Obviously weaned on a healthy diet of post-1965 Beatles music, Let’s Active (basically Mitch Easter with various guest musicians) has recorded an album that combines lush, textured melodies with bright-eyed and bushy-tailed vocals. Leaving his Southern roots and the herky-jerkiness of Let’s Active’s 1984 LP “Cypress” behind, Easter opens the first side with the one-two-three punch of “In Little Ways,” the peppy, slightly sardonic “Talking to Myself” and “Writing the Book of Last Pages” which sounds uncannily like “Baby, You’re a Rich Man.”