| Moonhead | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Thin White Rope |
| Cover: | Moonhead.jpg |
| Released: | February 1987 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock Neo-psychedelia |
| Length: | 53:45 |
| Label: | Frontier[1] |
| Producer: | TWR & Paul McKenna |
| Prev Title: | Exploring the Axis |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | In the Spanish Cave |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
Moonhead is the second full-length album by Thin White Rope, released in 1987.[2]
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)."[3] 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."[4]
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."[5] [2] Spin wrote that the track creates "an unforgiving atmosphere of sparked vocals supplanted by an eardrum-piercing fretboard roar."[6]