Blank Dogs

Artist- Blank Dogs
Album- Land and Fixed
Label- Captured Tracks

Blank Dogs is the lo-fi post punk project of Mike Sniper, the owner of veritable indie label Captured Tracks. This LP is certainly cleaner in sound than the last few Blank Dogs releases, but it still has an unpolished charm. “Goes By” features the mechanized drumming of Joy Division with gothy synths. All of Sniper’s vocals are distorted in some way on this album; it comes off as distant yet strangely cool (influences of 70’s group Suicide). “Northern Islands” has elements of 8bit, Nintendo-ish beats. “Insides” sounds like the Cure for the first minute until the song opens up into a quicker punky jam. Sniper has definitely begun to make a transition from post-punk to new wave on this LP.