Full-length from Minneapolis’s Michael Yonkers, who birthed the staggering avant-garage LP Microminiature Love back in 1968, a no-show on Sire Records at the time and finally released on LP by Clint Simonson’s De Stijl records a few years back and now available as a CD on Sub Pop. It’s Only Yonkers was recorded last year, with Yonkers playing everything straight through in order onto a four track, all first takes, no overdubs. A clutch of miniature blues informed by *that* guitar tone. You know.

Unearthing of another unreleased album from Michael Yonkers of Microminiature Love fame, this one recorded in 1977. Pressed and packaged to fit perfectly on the same shelf as his 1970s private press releases, Lovely Gold is a mix of weird UK psych pooftery, Detroit-styled destructo rock, strange devotional hymns, basement ballads and a faraway DIY production style. Yonkers is one of the classic rock vocalists, with a style that sits somewhere between Roky Erickson, Buddy Holly and Bobby Fuller and even the slightest material here feels beamed from a rock/roll neverland that may or may not have really existed. His version of “Will It Be” is genuinely haunting. Already out of print from the label.