Moonhead

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Moonhead
Moonhead.jpg
Studio album by
Thin White Rope
ReleasedFebruary 1987
GenreAlternative rock
Neo-psychedelia
Length53:45
LabelFrontier[1]
ProducerTWR & Paul McKenna
Thin White Rope chronology
Exploring the Axis
(1985) 		Moonhead
(1987) 		In the Spanish Cave
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[3]
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography8/10[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide4/5 stars[5]
OndaRock7/10[6]

Moonhead is the second full-length album by Thin White Rope, released in 1987.[7]

Critical reception[]

Trouser Press wrote that the album "alters the modus operandi a bit, stretching song lengths and forging a provocative, embryonic bond between wiry, Television-styled guitar interplay and groove-conscious kraut-rock rhythms (held in place by Jozef Becker’s incredibly focused drumming)."[8] The Los Angeles Times called the album "excellent," writing that the band's "fuzzy, often dissonant twin-guitar solos recall such diverse groups as Television and Spirit, as its material takes traditional forms and bends them into something unexpected, going from Western gallops to psychedelic dirges."[9]

The Guardian deemed "Crawl Piss Freeze" "not so much a song as an apocalyptic death march," while AllMusic described it as a postcard "from the edge."[10][7] Spin wrote that the track creates "an unforgiving atmosphere of sparked vocals supplanted by an eardrum-piercing fretboard roar."[11]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Guy Kyser (except where noted).

No.TitleLength
1."Not Your Fault" (Becker/Kyser)3:45
2."Wire Animals"4:00
3."Take It Home"4:36
4."Thing"2:54
5."Moonhead" (Kyser/Becker/Kunkel/Tesluk)4:45
6."Wet Heart"4:34
7."Mother" (Kunkel/Kyser)4:27
8."Come Around"2:19
9."If Those Tears"3:16
10."Crawl Piss Freeze" (Kyser/Kunkel/Tesluk)5:34
11."Waking Up"2:43
12."Valley Of The Bones"2:54
13."Atomic Imagery" (Kyser/Tesluk)3:36
14."Ain't That Lovin' You Baby" (Jimmy Reed)3:54
15."Take It Home (Long Version)"6:17

Credits[]

  • Guy Kyser – Guitar, Vocals
  • Roger Kunkel – Guitar, Vocals
  • Stephen Tesluk – Bass, Vocals
  • John Von Feldt – Bass
  • Jozef Becker – Drums
with
  • Paul McKenna – Engineer, Producer
  • John Golden – Mastering
  • Ross Garfield – Drum Technician
and
  • Greg Gavin – Cover Painting, Paintings
  • Merril Greene – Photography
  • Robin K. – Photography
  • Wendy Sherman – Design

References[]

  1. ^ "Moonhead - 2018 Remastered Edition, by Thin White Rope". Thin White Rope.
  2. ^ Mason, Stewart. Moonhead at AllMusic
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 8: MUZE. pp. 123–124.CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1140.
  6. ^ [2]
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Thin White Rope | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. ^ "Thin White Rope". Trouser Press. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  9. ^ "A PROMISING ROPE". Los Angeles Times. March 23, 1987.
  10. ^ "Cult heroes: Thin White Rope were scorched, alien, hostile". the Guardian. March 24, 2015.
  11. ^ "Underground". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. July 6, 1987 – via Google Books.
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