Better Than Heavy
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| name = Better Than Heavy
| type = studio
| artist = Mongrel
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| released = 7 March 2009
| recorded = 2008–2009
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| length = 1:15:20
| label = Wall Of Sound Ltd.
| producer = Mongrel
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Better Than Heavy is the debut and only studio album from supergroup Mongrel. It was released on 7 March 2009.{{cite news|author=Dave Simpson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/mar/06/mongrel-better-than-heavy-review |title=Pop review: Mongrel: Better Than Heavy | Music |newspaper=The Guardian |date= 6 March 2009|access-date=2012-01-16 |location=London}}{{cite web |url=http://www.inthenews.co.uk/entertainment/reviews/music/who-s-next-/mongrel-better-than-heavy-$1252681.htm |title=Mongrel: Better Than Heavy |website=Inthenews.co.uk |access-date=2012-01-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330005837/http://www.inthenews.co.uk/entertainment/reviews/music/who-s-next-/mongrel-better-than-heavy-%241252681.htm |archivedate=2012-03-30 }}
Track listing
;Disc 1:
{{Track listing
| title1 = Barcode
| note1 = featuring Pariz 1, Tor Cesay, Mpho and Saul Williams
| length1 = 3:54
| title2 = Lies
| length2 = 3:21
| title3 = Hit From the Morning Sun
| note3 = featuring Mpho, Tor Cesay and Pariz1
| length3 = 3:32
| title4 = Off the Leash
| length4 = 1:02
| title5 = The Menace
| note5 =
| length5 = 3:21
| title6 = Act Like That
| note6 = featuring Purple, Kyza, NoLay, Logic and Mic Righteous
| length6 = 3:23
| title7 = Julian
| length7 = 3:47
| title8 = Better Than Heavy
| length8 = 4:13
| title9 = Better Them Than Us
| note9 = featuring Skinnyman
| length9 = 3:29
| title10 = Alphabet Assassins
| note10 = featuring Deadly Hunta, Doc Brown, Frantic Frank, Ill Mill, Kyza, Logic, Purple, Mic Righteous, NoLay, Skinnyman, Skirmish, Smife, Stylah, Tony D, Wordplay and Wretch 32
| length10 = 5:20
| title11 = All Your Ever Afters
| length11 = 3:46
}}
;Disc 2:
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| title1 = Guess Who's Coming Home
| note1 = featuring Skip McDonald
| length1 = 4:56
| title2 = Gun Dub
| note2 = featuring Samia Farah and Brother Culture
| length2 = 3:47
| title3 = Mr. 20%
| length3 = 4:07
| title4 = Better Than Dub
| note4 = featuring Samia Farah and Brother Culture
| length4 = 5:24
| title5 = Mesopotamia
| length5 = 3:23
| title6 = Alphabet vs. Brother Culture
| note6 = featuring Brother Culture
| length6 = 3:41
| title7 = 45681950
| length7 = 4:10
| title8 = Brainwashing
| length8 = 3:25
| title9 = Hit From the Morning Dub
| length9 = 3:19
}}
Personnel
Credits adapted from Better Than Heavy liner notes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/5796499-Mongrel-Better-Than-Heavy|title=Mongrel – Better Than Heavy (2009, CD)|access-date=18 December 2021|website=Discogs.com}}
;Mongrel
- Jon McClure - vocals
- Kareem Dennis - vocals
- Drew McConnell - guitar, bass guitar
- Andy Nicholson - guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer
- Joe Moskow - effects, guitar, piano, strings, synthesizer, trumpet, melodica
- Matt Helders - drums
;Additional personnel
- Brother Culture - vocals
- Samia Farah - vocals
- DJ Moodie - scratches
- Dave Fullwood - trumpet
- Chris Petter - trombone
- Johnny Fielding - violin
- Crocodile - effects, sampler
- Bassekou Kouyate - ngoni
- Skip McDonald - guitar
;Production
- Mongrel - production
- Anthony Lueng - additional mixing
- Adrian Sherwood - mixing, production