Formed in Davis, California, this criminally ignored band produced some of the most powerful and original music of the late Eighties and early Nineties. Each album showed a new sense of maturity in both their already unique lyrical narrative and their monstrous guitar arrangements. This was a band that could thread a haunting, thoughtful narrative through a bone-crushing feedback structure. Just as the band split, Trouser Press called Thin White Rope "...a truly great American band in its prime."

CD Discography

Exploring the Axis [Frontier 1985]

Moonhead [Frontier 1987]

Captain Long Brown Finger in the Spanish Cave [Frontier 1988]

Red Sun EP [Demon 1988]

Sack Full of Silver [Frontier-RCA 1990]

Squatter's Rights EP [Frontier 1991]

The Ruby Sea [Frontier 1991]

The One That Got Away [Frontier 1993]

Spoor, a compilation [Frontier 1995]

Pictures

Democrazy - TWR's grand finale show at Ghent (broken, will be back soon)

Interviews, reports, and shit

 The Geologic Systems of Thin White Rope -An Interview with Guy Kyser

Discussions

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