Rating:
Genre:
Rock
Release Date: 09/06/1993
Run Time: 53:45
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, All Music Guide
;)
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