Free album features RTB2, Gaston Light, and more from DFW

by Jessica Harp

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The massive record has 54 tracks.

Ty Griffin, owner of music blog Escaping The Ordinary, is at it again with the website’s third free music compilation since its inception in July 2010. He admits that the three-disc album is more “over-the-top” than its predecessors. The massive record features 54 tracks – more than the first two volumes combined.

Originally, the music enthusiast was planning on creating a double album, but he decided he should triple it since there were a plethora of musicians who wanted to be involved. The discs feature Griffin’s favorite bands from Texas and beyond and are featured “to help bands get their music heard through free promotion,” he said.

It features Dallas-Fort Worth bands RTB2, The House Harkonnen, Trebuchet, Gaston Light, and more. Griffin said each band on the compilation has had a positive in influence on him and embraces what Escaping The Ordinary is all about: inspiring others to escape the ordinary and “showcase how they’re unique and embrace what they’re passionate about,” he said.

A fourth volume is already in the works, which he hopes to release in April or May.

In the meantime, the site will be involved with the All Together Now Showcase at SXSW and at 35 Denton, both in March.

Escaping The Ordinary: Volume III is available to download for free here. Local bands are highlighted in blue.

Track listing:

Disc 1

• 1. Caspian – Of Foam and Wave
• 2. Auxiliary Voice – The Garden
• 3. Dead Letter Circus – Alien
• 4. Fair To Midland – Golden Parachutes
• 5. Junius – The Time of Perfect Virtue
• 6. (Damn) This Desert Air – Hanger
• 7. Moving Atlas – Machina
• 8. Trebuchet – Collision
• 9. The House Harkonnen – Ocean
• 10. He Is Legend – Dicephalous
• 11. Newtown Knife Gang – Words
• 12. Pile – Don’t Touch Anything
• 13. Aficionado – Honesty (featuring Travis Shettel)
• 14. The Commotion – Carry On
• 15. RTB2 – Another Black Beauty
• 16. Ha Ha Tonka – Usual Suspects
• 17. House of Fools – Love
• 18. –darroh – Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground (Antony and The Johnsons)

Disc 2

• 1. And So I Watch You From Afar – Lifeproof
• 2. Black Books – Favorite Place
• 3. Rishloo – Diamond Eyes
• 4. Thursday – Fast To The End
• 5. Nothing More – Salem
• 6. Closure In Moscow – We Want Guarantees, Not Hunger Pains
• 7. White Elephant – Kill The Headlights & Drive!
• 8. New Magnetic North – The Owls Are Not What They Seem
• 9. Zlam Dunk!! – Vice
• 10. Silver Snakes – Lungs and Lanterns
• 11. THEENDISTHEBEGINNING – Weapons
• 12. Ursa – Aim To Please
• 13. Riverboat Gamblers – A Choppy, Yet Sincere Apology
• 14. Magnet School – The Sitch
• 15. Heypenny – Angels and Arches
• 16. Dredg – Down Without A Fight
• 17. Infinite Third – Cosmic Laughter
• 18. (Damn) This Desert Air – Made of Gold

Disc 3

• 1. Killington Fall – Eventide, The Dark
• 2. Actors&Actresses – Animals
• 3. The Angelus – Turned To Stone
• 4. InAeona – Soldier
• 5. Alpha Stasis – Sometimes I Feel Like I’m From The Future
• 6. The March of The Bull – Awaiting Arrival
• 7. Black Devil Yard Boss – Mistakes
• 8. The Nicholsons – Deep Throat
• 9. Shaolin Death Squad – Centipede
• 10. Redefine – Cut The Cord
• 11. Aperture – How We Fall
• 12. Pictures In Sound – Constantine (Look Before You Leap)
• 13. Saintkarla – Dark Skies
• 14. Beta State – Into The Lights
• 15. John Miller – Sing Softer
• 16. Grady Spencer and The Griswulds – Baby (The Matt and Ann Song)
• 17. Gaston Light – Half Awake
• 18. Paco Estrada – I Can Talk You Into Anything

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