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Playing the brilliantly askew eccentric has been a part of pop music's marketing shtick for so long that encountering the real deal can be downright jarring. A cursory listen to this long-lost album by obscure Twin Cities cult musician Michael Yonkers can inspire comparisons to artists as disparate as Pere Ubu, Joy Division, and Sonic Youth. In fact, the then-precocious Minnesota teen cut it back in 1968 for an eventually tabled major label release in an era when the Fugs and Mothers were being hailed as rock's avant garde, yet now sound almost quaint next to Yonkers's prescient, angular minimalism. Backed by the most elemental of drum/bass rhythm section, his quavering, yet insistent voice becomes enmeshed with hypnotically droning guitar (its unsettling tone the result of an oddball, accidental open tuning) and primitive, electro-shred effects on political and emotional excursions that are more ranting tone-poems than traditional songs. The album's original seven tracks are augmented by six bonus tracks (literal basement recordings from 1969) that are even more experimentally raw and riveting. --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
2003 reissue of 1968 album that remained unreleased until it was recently unearthed & issued on a limited vinyl only pressing from Destijl Records. For fans of Pere Ubu, Iggy Pop, & The Godz. The original seven track album is augmented with six bonus tracks circa 1968 - 'The Clock Is Running', 'My House', 'Hush Hush', 'Sold America' 'The Thunder Speaks' & 'Scat Jam'. Sigipak. Sub Pop.