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Blank Dogs - Land and Fixed

Review by Jazz Monroe

The album hovers between the audacity of no wave at its most impulsive and the poignancy of crossover artists who’ve openly borrowed from the genre, reaping the benefits of neither extreme. »

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brooklyn lo-fi artist blank dogs aka mike sniper, the man behind the captured tracks imprint (dum dum girls, wild nothing) releases a new album 'land and fixed'. blank dogs began as mike sniper, the formerly anonymous lo-fi purveying new yorker behind the captured tracks label.
now he's got a full band in tow, and he's cleared up his sound to create a tight 12 song album that sees him 'develop his sound into an expansive mix of clear (the cure, joy division) and cryptic (the go-betweens, neil young) influences' that touches upon everything from the spare, sparkling synths of france's cold-wave movement to the jangly guitars of classic indie rock.
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