Moonhead

Moonhead
Studio album by
Thin White Rope
ReleasedFebruary 1987
GenresAlternative rock
Neo-psychedelia
Length53:45
LabelFrontier
ProducersTWR & Paul McKenna
Thin White Rope chronology
Exploring the Axis
(1985)		 Moonhead
(1987)		 In the Spanish Cave
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStar
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography8/10
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album GuideStarStarStarStar
OndaRock7/10
SelectStarStarStarStarStar

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

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)." 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."

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." Spin wrote that the track creates "an unforgiving atmosphere of sparked vocals supplanted by an eardrum-piercing fretboard roar."

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

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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. Vol. 8. MUZE. pp. 123–124.
  4. ↑ Strong, Martin Charles (1999). The great alternative & indie discography. ISBN 9780862419134.
  5. ↑ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1140.
  6. ↑ "Thin White Rope - biografia, recensioni, streaming, discografia, foto".
  7. ↑ Select magazine, August 1990 issue, page 121
  8. 1 2 "Thin White Rope | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  9. ↑ "Thin White Rope". Trouser Press. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
  10. ↑ "A PROMISING ROPE". Los Angeles Times. March 23, 1987.
  11. ↑ "Cult heroes: Thin White Rope were scorched, alien, hostile". the Guardian. March 24, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Underground". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. July 6, 1987 – via Google Books.