This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Microminiature Love sounds for all the world like some long-lost nugget of twisted garage-rock psychedelia from 1968. Which is rather fortunate, since that’s precisely what it is.
This gnarly little fuzzball of gloom ’n’ doom was actually recorded back in the heyday of hippiedom by obscure Minneapolis singer-guitarist Michael Yonkers, only to end up shelved and forgotten. How that happened to a disc this unforgettable is still beyond me. Tripping down a path midway between The Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, The Fugs, The Monks and a host of similarly subversive and oddball acts, these 13 spaced-out ventures are laced with amateurishly lurching drums, twangy guitar buzz, minor-key melodies and bass lines that often seem to have only nodding acquaintance to the rest of the music. The stars of the show, however, are Yonkers’ throaty, off-key warble, freak-out guitar-noise experiments and endlessly buzz-harshing lyrics about death and killing and other stone bummers. To call Microminiature Love a piece of buried treasure would be pushing it — but it is an interesting flashback to a time when bands could still get away with stuff like this.
