Written by Barlovv
Sometimes a compilation comes out and I live tweet it track by track. Now I am converting those tweets into an article for posterity and CONTENT!
This ones is the Food Desert Recordings release of Being for the Benefit of Equality: A Blade with Which to Defend the Trans Youth of Texas – an extremely good compilation you can buy right this second.
- Slain Thought – A Punishment Plate (8:11)
A solid opener, feels like a march and “getting ready for battle”. On theme for sure, and some solid instrumental work. sets a strong tone. - Fire at the Plantation House – Lift Every Voice and Sing (3:13)
If the previous song was the army readying for war, Lift Every Voice is the resistance trying to keep hope alive. Much more upbeat and light than I expected but absolutely excellent. - Bog Wizard – Miasmic Purple Smoke (8:30)
The villain song. But in a good way? Am I just head-canoning this into a musical now? It’s working. You’re suh good Bog Wizard. Where have you been all my life. Unrelated but I am absolutely rolling a Bog Wizard DnD character… - Cara Nier – Sycophant Psychopath (00:30)
Holy fucking shit. 10/10. Honestly the song was over faster than I could come up with something clever to say. - Eyerolls – Glued Humid Gloom Lights up the Room (4:40)
I think my musical has fallen apart because I was transported into another dimension and made to feel extremely on edge by this song. In a way that I liked, but still. A strange ride. - Hallucinogenic Bulb – Anomaly 2 (3:00)
The “travelling through time and space” portion of the album continues, and wow another bizarre and uneasy experience, but an appreciated one all the same. - Krystal Swords – Disintegrator (4:05)
After the previous two, the space journey continues but while they felt like being dragged at full speed through space by your teeth (in a good way), Disintegrator is the first view of a cyberpunk city - Tumultuous Ruin – The Day the Patriarchy Dies (1:56)
Honestly what can say better how good this is than the collection of words that started this tweet. It’s a Tumultuous Ruin song about the downfall of patriarchy. It fucking shreds. - Tristys – The White City, Exposed to the Moon pt 1. (4:40)
- Tristys – The White City Exposed to the Moon pt 2. (2:55)
Oh I see – trying to sneak a two part epic into my musical? WELL FINE. I’ll take it as one extremely good whole. A solid instrumental interlude and the two pieces are beautifully complimentary. - Disconnected Souls – Shatter (3:26)
The lead vocalist here has echoes of Maynard Keenan and I am here for it. Also that screamy one came out of nowhere and knocked my socks off. - SONUS – Pay Me Your Mind (4:26)
Some good ol’ rock and roll. Notes of Motörhead in here and it is a fine fine taste. Another band well worth an extended look after this. - Espi Kvlt – Ain’t no Sunshine (2:59)
An extremely stripped down and vulnerable cover of Bill Withers’ classic. A really nice transition here, almost as if the compilation knew when I would take a break. - Dutch Money(s) – Rutsuvo (2:14)
What sounds like a haunting and beautiful piece of traditional Japanese music, honestly I have no quips or anything here. Super interesting addition to this compilation. Big fan! - Dad Dreams – Left to Lose (1:10)
A little down and dirty punk to get the energy up, hell yeah. - wXdXw – Callous (00:58)
Another one that comes and goes so fast your head is still ringing when the next song starts. Absolutely ferocious banger - Youth Pastor – Bible Belt Abstinence Tour (00:23)
I mean Jesus Christ the song is less than 30 seconds long. Yeah it’s fucking awesome but my analysis can’t go much deeper. - Ace Merrill and the Golden Tones – Night of the Hunter (2:29)
Will someone please send me the 80s cop show and/or vampire film this is a theme for? Also, dang are you funky. - Carrows – Chapter 24 (7:12)
Sweeping instrumental music like this is something I always forget that I need to produce serotonin in my brain until I hear it again. Absolutely adore this. - Chainsaw Dismemberment – Cruentation (1:06)
Read the information above, the song sounds like that band making that song. You will know in advanced if you’ll like it. I do like it, but it loses points for being grind with no trumpets. - Elizabeth Short – Scaphism (3:08)
What did I JUST SAY about not having trumpets? It does bang though, hard to be mad. The real question is can TBDM sue for copyright on this band name? (note: this is not a real question) - Mercy Kill – Fuck Ron DeathSantis (3:14)
Gotta love when a song is exactly as described. This is a solid little hardcore punk number and it absolutely slams. I feel like quoting lyrics will get me kicked off the blue bird site though. - Drazen – The Serpents Wail (3:01)
We are just ripping through the second half of this compilation. Energy is high and the voices are fucking pissed. Absolutely killing it on this one from Drazen. - Apostolic Desecration – Beheading Ritual (2:26)
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: black metal drummers are extraordinary and deserve constant props. - Through Mists – Cloudshredder (4:11)
What an extremely bizarre song. After the breakneck pace of the previous handful of songs, it almost feels like a slow ballad, but it absolutely throws out just as much anger as anything else. Also the piano here is almost unsettling. - Non Pathogen – Dead Words (3:56)
Feels like the intro to a David Fincher movie and I am all about it. Is that just another way of saying it’s got kind of a Trent Reznor vibe? Maybe. Is that a good thing? Obviously yes. - HEALED – Bad Faith:Far Right:Closure (00:47)
A problem I run into not being the most musically literate is that I say things that sound insulting, this is not supposed to be insulting. The song feels like you’re listening to it through a wall? But I’m into it. - Qoheleth – Cereal Killer (3:16)
A wildly disorienting and slow burning song. Discordant piano and the sluggishness feel like being lost somewhere and the entrance only gets farther away. - Duncan Evans – Mouse Mask (5:03)
What if three blind mice but also Baby Driver? You didn’t know you wanted that but you fucking do. - New Nobility – Make a Better World (2:45)
Hey, They Might Be Giants, I didn’t expect to see you here. Please, stay awhile. What a shockingly upbeat piece of music to find this deep in the compilation. - Fire to the Prisons – Sister (3:54)
Hey how about that? The first artist I reviewed for Noob Heavy has arrived. Sister is extremely good and extremely available on FTTPs debut EP but… you knew that because you bought it already. Right? - Drainbow – Child is the Mother of Woman (6:21)
Boasts some very strong vocals and a really solid piece to wind down 32 extremely good songs. Feels like something you would put on in a smoke filled living room and I love it.
And that’s all she wrote, or he wrote… I wrote. Whatever. I hope you’ve enjoyed this and if you’d like catch them live you should go ahead and follow me on Twitter – @Barlovv