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Sin Agog
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Edited Jul 22, 2014, 19:54
Re: Michael Yonkers Band
Jul 22, 2014, 19:42
He has a really wicked guitar tone, doesn't he? Think he was another member of that churlish "it's my party, I'll detune my guitar if I want to" camp of '60s outsiders (though he seems a bit more together than most. Lurve that album. I also have some folkier stuff he did which is actually really, really great. I was surprised to find he wasn't just a one-album oddity actually, like so many of his generation, and had a fairly prolific solo career. Grimwood doesn't have any of that unique guitar sound, but it does arguably do to acid folk what The Michael Yonkers Band did to garage rock...which is subvert the fuck out of it. Most of the songs have a weird, eldritch quality from the ever-present primitive synth drones throughout. It's one of my favourite private press releases ever (at least I think it's private press); Czech it oot!

ETA: Those parentheses shall remain unclosed forever bwahaha

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