Comprising the Neon Philharmonic's two long-lost LPs and a handful of singles, Brilliant Colors is soaking with hooks, but hardly slushy. With help from the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the elegant melodic arches of composer-songwriter Tupper Saussy etch sophistication into ditties like "Morning Girl" as much as they pep up his rangier, symphonic moments. To the world, this is AM radio-ready pop -- but it's outsider music in the sense that Saussy, like Bacharach and Brian Wilson, was a square, peeking into a rising psychedelic culture and finding a spark of freedom to transduce into conventional pop. Later, the Neon Philharmonic's resident genius was to become a major figure in the tax-resistance underground and end up on the lam for a decade, only to surface in time for this retrospective. That's another story. Brilliant Colors, though, chronicles one of the most bittersweet lost chapters in pop music.