Comments on: Michael Yonkers Band “Microminiature Love”

By: italianbeat

italianbeat — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:30:50 +0000

Hey! “Boy In The Sandbox” has the same riff of ‘Brick in the wall’!!!

By: italianbeat

italianbeat — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:29:49 +0000

“Boy In The Sandbox” has the same riff of ‘Brick in the wall’!!!

By: morning mag

morning mag — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:03:38 +0000

in my opinion, Microminiature Love IS a masterpiece, way ahead of its time.

i would also like to suggest listening to Yonkers’ Grimwood album, a beautiful, intimate and introspective record, quite different from Microminiature but every bit as good.

By: ted

ted — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:02:40 +0000

Yeah, maybe the album is not a masterpiece, but listen to songs like “Sold America”. That is some serious raw power and it has a sound that was way ahead of its time. The song sounds like it could have come out 3 or 4 years ago…only it is better than most of the songs that came out 3 or 4 years ago.

By: donkey_shot

donkey_shot — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:45:23 +0000

this is a quirky record, and uncharacteristically dark for its time. describing the album as dark in a velvetish or zappa-like way (as some have suggested) however accords “microminiature love” a status it doesn`t deserve:

“boy in the sandbox” is a fine psychedelic period piece, with inventive guitar abstractions reminiscent maybe of fifty foot hose (whose only album is a masterpiece in this writer`s view). however, that`s where the distinctiveness of this album ends: playing seven slightly differing versions of “boy in the sandbox” (in the same key, too!) a long-lost psychedelic masterpiece does not make.

forgive me therefore if I suggest taking an earful of this album in 30 second bites at amazon before investing your hard-earned cash, via a download of “boy in the sandbox”, say, and then opting instead for a cd re-release of fifty foot hose, randy holden (population ll) or similar for superior listening pleasure…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:58:47 +0000

Idiosyncratic guitar, too, on the cover. Looks like a custom twin-neck incorporating a Fender Telecaster and Jaguar. Weird! But useful for switching from one alternate tuning to another mid-song.

By: alejandro

alejandro — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:42:35 +0000

Heavy and idiosyncratic indeed! Love this record.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:38:53 +0000

This is awesomely dark, not surprised it matured for a while. Also not surprised it ended up in the hands of Sub Pop.Great find!