Michael Yonkers may be best known for his avant-garage classic Microminiature Love, but just like every other young musician in the 60s, he had a dorky high-school garage band too: Michael and The Mumbles.
Just like many of the young "garage" rock bands of 66, The Mumbles showed hints of the rock ‘n’ rollers of the day -- Buddy Holly, The Dave Clark Five, etc. And as evidenced by the cover, The Mumbles were a pretty normal 66 rock ‘n’ roll band, with their matching suit coats and slick, boyish haircuts. But fans of Microminiature Love won't be disappointed to find out that The Mumbles' self-titled still features some of the same "emotionally bleak themes, dissonant undercurrents, and recklessly wild performance" that made Microminiature Love what it is. According to De Stijl, this might just sound like a normal record from 66, but after repeat listens you will notice a "darkness beneath what some dullard might be deceived by as its crisp, winsome visage."
If you take a skip, hop, and a jump over to De Stijl's website, you can take a listen to a single track from the record.
