# Moonhead

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Moonhead
| type       = [Album](/source/Album)
| artist     = [Thin White Rope](/source/Thin_White_Rope)
| cover      = Moonhead.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = February 1987
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Alternative rock](/source/Alternative_rock)<br>[Neo-psychedelia](/source/Neo-psychedelia)
| length     = 53:45
| label      = [Frontier](/source/Frontier_Records)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/moonhead-2018-remastered-edition|title=Moonhead - 2018 Remastered Edition, by Thin White Rope|website=Thin White Rope}}</ref>
| producer   = TWR & Paul McKenna
| prev_title = [Exploring the Axis](/source/Exploring_the_Axis)
| prev_year  = 1985
| next_title = [In the Spanish Cave](/source/In_the_Spanish_Cave)
| next_year  = 1988
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r20012|first=Stewart|last=Mason}}</ref> 
| rev2      = ''[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music](/source/The_Encyclopedia_of_Popular_Music)''
| rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=8 |pages=123–124}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[The Great Alternative & Indie Discography](/source/Martin_C._Strong)''
| rev3score = 8/10<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/greatalternative0000stro/page/646/|isbn = 9780862419134|title = The great alternative & indie discography|year = 1999|last1 = Strong|first1 = Martin Charles}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide](/source/MusicHound)''
|rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=1140}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[OndaRock](/source/%3Ait%3AClaudio_Fabretti)''
|rev5score = 7/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/thinwhiterope.htm|title=Thin White Rope - biografia, recensioni, streaming, discografia, foto}}</ref>
|rev6 = ''[Select](/source/Select_(magazine))''
|rev6score = {{rating|5|5|full=U+25A0.svg|empty=U+25A1.svg|rating=medal}}<ref name=sel>''[Select](/source/Select_(magazine))'' magazine, August 1990 issue, page 121</ref>
}}

'''''Moonhead''''' is the second full-length album by [Thin White Rope](/source/Thin_White_Rope), released in 1987.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/thin-white-rope-mn0000496207/biography|title=Thin White Rope &#124; Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
''[Trouser Press](/source/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)."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Thin White Rope |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/thin-white-rope/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=6 February 2021}}</ref> The ''[Los Angeles Times](/source/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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-23-ca-8915-story.html|title=A PROMISING ROPE|date=March 23, 1987|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

''[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)'' deemed "Crawl Piss Freeze" "not so much a song as an apocalyptic death march," while [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) described it as a postcard "from the edge."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/24/cult-heroes-thin-white-rope-were-scorched-alien-hostile|title=Cult heroes: Thin White Rope were scorched, alien, hostile|date=March 24, 2015|website=the Guardian}}</ref><ref name="auto"/> ''[Spin](/source/Spin_(magazine))'' wrote that the track creates "an unforgiving atmosphere of sparked vocals supplanted by an eardrum-piercing fretboard roar."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sc9ijqDIbEgC&q=Moonhead+thin+white+rope+1987&pg=PA31|title=Underground|work=SPIN|date=July 6, 1987|publisher=SPIN Media LLC|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Guy Kyser (except where noted)
| title1      = Not Your Fault
| note1       = Becker/Kyser
| length1     = 3:45
| title2      = Wire Animals
| length2     = 4:00 
| title3      = Take It Home
| length3     = 4:36
| title4      = Thing
| length4     = 2:54
| title5      = Moonhead
| note5       = Kyser/Becker/Kunkel/Tesluk
| length5     = 4:45 
| title6      = Wet Heart
| length6     = 4:34 
| title7      = Mother
| note7       = Kunkel/Kyser
| length7     = 4:27
| title8      = Come Around
| length8     = 2:19
| title9      = If Those Tears
| length9     = 3:16
| title10     = Crawl Piss Freeze
| note10      = Kyser/Kunkel/Tesluk
| length10    = 5:34
| title11     = Waking Up
| length11    = 2:43 
| title12     = Valley Of The Bones
| length12    = 2:54 
| title13     = Atomic Imagery
| note13      = Kyser/Tesluk
| length13    = 3:36 
| title14     = [Ain't That Lovin' You Baby](/source/Ain't_That_Lovin'_You%2C_Baby_(Jimmy_Reed_song))
| note14      = [Jimmy Reed](/source/Jimmy_Reed)
| length14    = 3:54 
| title15     = Take It Home (Long Version)
| length15    = 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==
{{Reflist}}

{{Thin White Rope}}
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Category:1987 albums
Category:Frontier Records albums
Category:Thin White Rope albums

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