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Moonhead
Studio album by Thin White Rope
Released	February 1987
Genre	Alternative rock Neo-psychedelia
Length	53:45
Label	Frontier
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
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography	8/10
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide
OndaRock	7/10
Select

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)

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. 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. ^ "Thin White Rope | Biography & History". AllMusic.
9. "Thin White Rope". Trouser Press. Retrieved 6 February 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.

• 1987 albums
• Frontier Records albums
• Thin White Rope albums