The sprawling and definitive Zen Arcade dissolved the boundaries of what kind of music and lyrics this Minneapolis punk trio could come up with, with psychedelic instrumentation and extended song lengths all over the double album. New Day Rising integrates the new textures into the song structures and intensity of Hüsker Dü’s original hardcore style. This works wonders on tracks like “The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill”, which inserts a stadium-sized anthemic chorus into a lo-fi monochromatic production. “Celebrated Summer” and “I Apologize” work in similar psychedelic punk territory, seemingly taking inspiration from Byrdsian jangle but speeding it up and blurring it out. Bob Mould’s wonderfully singular guitar tone – a harsh, enveloping wonder of engineering that fans out across the stereo spectrum – solidifies the connection and anchors one of Hüsker Dü’s most exhilarating records.