{{Other uses}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Moonhead | type = Album | artist = Thin White Rope | cover = Moonhead.jpg | alt = | released = February 1987 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Alternative rock<br>Neo-psychedelia | length = 53:45 | label = Frontier<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 | prev_year = 1985 | next_title = In the Spanish Cave | next_year = 1988 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r20012|first=Stewart|last=Mason}}</ref> | rev2 = ''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'' | 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'' |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'' |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'' |rev6score = {{rating|5|5|full=U+25A0.svg|empty=U+25A1.svg|rating=medal}}<ref name=sel>''Select'' magazine, August 1990 issue, page 121</ref> }}
'''''Moonhead''''' is the second full-length album by 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 | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref>
==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)."<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'' 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'' deemed "Crawl Piss Freeze" "not so much a song as an apocalyptic death march," while 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'' 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 | note14 = 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
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