recorded at Inner Ear Studios

Rites of Spring was the band’s first album. Its twelve songs were recorded at Inner Ear Studios in February 1985, produced by Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat and Michael Hampton of The Faith and SOA. It was released on vinyl in June of that year as Dischord Records No. 16. The album was re-released on CD and cassette in 1987, with an additional track from the same session, “Other Way Around”, as well as the four songs from the Rites’ follow-up EP , All Through a Life , Dischord No. 22. The CD and cassette originally retained the number “16”, while the 1991 repress, as well as the 2001 remastered version of the same seventeen songs, were numbered “16CD” and given the new title End on End . Their first demo of six songs was recorded in April 1984, almost a year before the sessions that became their debut album. It was released as a CD EP and 10″ vinyl record in 2012 on Dischord Records with the catalog number 176. The band broke up in January 1986 soon after the sessions that produced the “All Through A Life” recording.