Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Michael Yonkers
Lovely Gold

Galactic Zoo Disk GZD-004

LP
£15.99


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.