From sunshiney, smog-filled streets to an avian-strewn state
of ur-nature, MIKE DONOVAN's seen his share of the world,
making records and playing shows all over the past 20 years
with, chronologically, THE ROPERS, YIKES, THE HOSPITALS, SIC
ALPS, TY SEGALL, THE PEACERS and most recently, himself.
Time goes by and just seems to get faster as it goes. In June of
2017, MIKE led THE PEACERS sophomore effort, Introducing the
Crimsmen, into the world. On 4/20 of '18, his own sophomore
solo release How to Get Your Record Played In Shops hit down
(in shops - it worked!). And now, a hot 23 months after the
inauguration of the Crimsmendom, a third long-player in the
time-frame arrives, as MIKE D whisks us away to his remote
Exurbian Quonset.
Exurbian Quonset sticks up like a fork in the road- it was
drawn together as MIKE prepared to be the last man from
the old gang to leave SF, where he broke so many rules and
new ground, working as a driver, a trimmer and a craftsman,
cementing bricks into the foundation of the new centurion west
coast rock and roll movement from his place alongside THEE
OH SEES over the past decade. It's dedicated to the woman
who married him and taught him both words in the title of the
album-exurbian and quonset-and who he'll whisk away with
to somewhere just like the title.