Moonhead

by Thin White Rope

Overview

Thin White Rope's second album, Moonhead, is the edge-of-chaos masterpiece of the paisley underground, an album that sounds like Neil Young & Crazy Horse tackling Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. All of the 14 songs, even a pounding cover of Jimmy Reed's blues classic "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby," are so wound up and tense that they sound like they could explode at any point; the fact that they don't, not even on extended guitar workouts like "Crawl Piss Freeze" and the epic closer "Take It Home," gives the album an at times almost unbearable tension. The songs all start from basically the same point -- dual-guitar leads over Jozef Becker's almost Krautrock-like steady pulses and Stephen Tesluk's throbbing, minimal basslines -- but Guy Kyser's lyrics and vocals range from tortured wails to mordant, deadpan humor, providing the album with just enough variation that it doesn't become deadening. An intense, satisfying album, Moonhead is Thin White Rope's most substantial and powerful effort. ~ Stewart Mason

Product Details

Release Date:	09/06/1993
Label:	Frontier
UPC:	0018663102016
Rank:	64506

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Thin White Rope   Primary Artist
Roger Kunkel   Guitar,Vocals
Jozef Becker   Drums
John VanFeldt   Bass
Stephen Tesluk   Bass,Vocals
Guy Kyser   Guitar,Vocals
John Von Feldt   Bass

Technical Credits

Greg Gavin   Cover Painting,Paintings
Jimmy Reed   Composer
Clyde Otis   Composer
John Golden   Mastering
Thin White Rope   Producer
Ivory Joe Hunter   Composer
Roger Kunkel   Composer
Jozef Becker   Composer
Merril Greene   Photography
Robin K.   Photography
Stephen Tesluk   Composer
Wendy Sherman   Design
Guy Kyser   Composer
Ross Garfield   Drum Technician
Paul McKenna   Engineer,Producer