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Release Date: 10/18/2005
Fat Wreck has fired up its activism arm once again.
Protect: A Benefit for the National Association to Protect Children has a warmer, fuzzier goal than the
Rock Against Bush comps of 2004, but it's no less urgent -- the set's notes describe how the U.S. lacks an effective support network for abused kids. To that end 26 bands from the
Fat roster and elsewhere have contributed music, much of it unreleased.
Alkaline Trio's
Matt Skiba kicks it off with the spare
"Demons Away," Smoke or Fire's
"Indecision" offers raucous
punk revivalism, and
Coalesce covers
the Jesus Lizard's
"Mouth Breather." Communiqué's
"Carrie Anne" is an interesting mix of orchestration and bashing
pop, like a less morose
Afghan Whigs, while
the Soviettes show their usual spunk on the
LP III gem
"Middle of the Night." There's also unreleased material from
Against Me! (doing
Dylan's
"Wagon Wheel"),
Jawbreaker (a live
"Want" from 1993),
Lagwagon's
Joey Cape (
"Minus"), and a pretty cool track from Cleveland's
Lovekill (
"Refrain of the A.M.") that's very
Poster Children. Other contributors include
MXPX,
BARS,
Teenage Bottlerocket, and the
Falcon.
Protect might be a little too long and sporadic, but that's alright. After all, they're doing it for the
kids, man, the motherf.... Well, you get the idea. Support
Protect: A Benefit for the National Association to Protect Children with a purchase, and get a pretty good
rock compilation in return.
~Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide
;)
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