Moonhead

Moonhead is the second full-length album by Thin White Rope, released in 1987.[5]

Moonhead
Studio album by Thin White Rope
Released	February 1987
Genre	Alternative rock Neo-psychedelia
Length	53:45
Label	Frontier[1]
Producer	TWR & Paul McKenna
Thin White Rope chronology
Exploring the Axis (1985) Moonhead (1987) In the Spanish Cave (1988)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[4]

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)."[6] 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."[7]

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."[8][5] Spin wrote that the track creates "an unforgiving atmosphere of sparked vocals supplanted by an eardrum-piercing fretboard roar."[9]

Track listing

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

No.	Title	Length
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. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1140.
5. "Thin White Rope | Biography & History". AllMusic.
6. "Thin White Rope". Trouser Press. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
7. "A PROMISING ROPE". Los Angeles Times. March 23, 1987.
8. "Cult heroes: Thin White Rope were scorched, alien, hostile". the Guardian. March 24, 2015.
9. "Underground". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. July 6, 1987 – via Google Books.