Thin White Rope:
Moonhead
Frontier Records 31020/ Demon Diabolo DIAB 825
Roger Kunkel (g)
Jozef Becker (d)
Stephen Tesluk (b)
Wire Animals
Take It Home
Thing
Moonhead
Wet Heart
Mother
Come Around
If Those Tears
Crawl Piss Freeze
+ Tina And Glen
+ Munich Eunuch
+ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
+ Here She Comes Now
Record is still available via lfrontier@mail.com
What Zippo Records Say About It
In the year since the release of their first album, Exploring The Axis, Thin White Rope had expanded their following from coastal California to the mid-west, mideast, and troubled areas of Europe."There's something here I've never heard from any other band, and it's both uplifting and frightening" One of the 12 best American albums of 1985. (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner)
This Davis, California quartet has meanwhile attended the National School of Hard Rock with the Pontiac Brothers and Naked Prey, on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Tour. A dusty trail littered with critical successes zigzags from Austin to Chicago to Ohio to Georgia.
"Thin White Rope are reaching for the heart of the American dream with a ferocity that makes the Boss look like a lame old lady..." (Jim DeRogatis, The Bob)
Their new album, Moonhead (Zippo Zong 017), engineered by ex-A&M-recording whiz Paul McKenna, provides new insight into the big beat and riffing bass, coupled with ever more cynically insectile guitars. And
"there's a skin of ice in the voice that glitters with fear and danger, paranoia and melancholy. The Songs explore a world of unreachable need..." (Waste Paper No. 13 Denver, Colorado)
Emotional Achille's heels and touches of humour continue to appear in Thin White Rope's music, suggesting that the post-adolescent crust has not hardened on their souls. Though leaner and grittier than the first album, Moonhead reaffirms the importance of friendship in an often senseless world.
Liner notes from Moonhead re-issue
ME/S-Review
Noch mehr brodelnde/bewährte Vergangenheit läßt sich aus MOONHEAD heraushören, dem neuesten Album von Thin White Rope aus dem kalifornischen Sonnenland. Schleifende E-Gitarren und ein tief-krächzender gequälter Blues-Gesang formieren sich hier zusammen mit einem bodenständigen, treibenden Backing Track zum kompakten West-Coast-Rock-Sound, der aufgrund seiner bluesigen Passagen Gedanken an John Kay und seine Steppenwolf-Gang hervorruft.(4 Sterne)
Harald Inhülsen in Musikexpress/Sounds 5-87