After touring heavily behind "Darker Days", the Connells re-entered the studio in 1986 with producer Mitch Easter to record their second album, "Boylan Heights". The decision to work with Easter continued to perpetuate the comparisons to R.E.M. Mike Connell's songwriting on "Boylan Heights" would provide most of the foundation for the band's live show sound for the remainder of their career. The opener, "Scotty's Lament", featured the most explicit Celtic influence in the band's songbook, while the chorus lyric "I delight in my despair" satirized the band's early image as doom and gloom merchants "a la" Morrissey and The Smiths. Also notable is that the lyrics for that song originally included the sardonic twist, "I delight in "your" despair."