Albums
Grimwood
2007
Genre: Alternative
Release Date: 2007
By Andrew Gaerig
Reviewed October 22, 2007
This reissue of Yonkers' 1974 sophomore album follows four years after his equally obscure 1969 debut, Microminiature Love, made its CD bow; where the latter leans toward psychedelic rock, Grimwood is a soft-focus folk record with tiny avant-garde tendrils.
Plenty of ink was spilled in 2003 when Minneapolis psych-rock wunderkind Michael Yonkers' 1969 debut was rescued from collector hell. While the reissue of his first album received all the attention, his second, , remained in limbo. Recorded in 1969, originally materialized in 1974, after label frustrations scattered 's original band, and treatments for a 1971 warehouse accident left Yonkers all but crippled. The album is the residue of those years, a soft-focus folk record with tiny avant-garde tendrils.