Blank Dogs

Blank Dogs is an American post-punk project from Brooklyn. It is essentially a stage name for Mike Sniper, a multi-instrumentalist who had previously played with DC Snipers.^[1]

Blank Dogs' first releases arrived in 2007, and the outfit issued around a hundred releases in 2008, in various formats.^[2] Among them was an anthology on Troubleman Unlimited Records. In 2009 Blank Dogs signed with In the Red Records, releasing the full-length Under and Under on CD and double-LP (the LP having bonus tracks). Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls guest on the album.^[1]

Discography

Albums

• On Two Sides (cassette, Fuck It Tapes / LP, Troubleman Unlimited / CD, Sacred Bones, 2008)
• Under and Under (LPx2, CD, In the Red Records, 2009)
• Land and Fixed (LP, Captured Tracks, 2010)

EPs

• The First Two Weeks (12" Freedom School, 2007)
• Yellow Mice Sleep (7" HoZac, 2007)
• Diana (the Herald) (12" Sacred Bones, 2007)
• The Fields (12" Woodsist / cassette, Fuck It Tapes / CD Woodist, 2008)
• Mirror Lights (cassette, Drone Erant, 2009)
• Captured Tracks Vol. 1 (CD-R, Captured Tracks, 2008)
• Seconds (Captured Tracks, 2009)

Singles

• The Doorbell Fire (7", Sweet Rot, 2007/2008)
• Two Months (7", Florida's Dying, 2007)
• Stuck Inside The World (7", Daggerman, 2008)
• Setting Fire To Your House (7", 4:2:2, 2008)
• In Here (Slow Room/Anywhere) (7", Down In The Ground, (Captured Tracks), 2008/2009)
• Waiting (7", In The Red Records, 2009)
• Leaves (cassette, Captured Tracks, 2010)

Compilations

• Blank Box (LP, ?, 2008)
• Year One (cassette, Fuck It Tapes / LP, CD, Sacred Bones, 2008/2009)
• (one song on) The World's Lousy With Ideas Vol. 8 (Almost Ready Records, 2009)
• Collected By Itself: 2006-2009 (2xLP/CD, Captured Tracks, 2011)

References

Footnotes

Further reading

• Band to Watch: Blank Dogs. Stereogum, September 5, 2008.
• Hype Monitor: Blank Dogs, Bowerbirds, Brilliant Colors. Rolling Stone, May 14, 2009.
• Blank Dogs. East Bay Express, June 17, 2009.
• Review, Pitchfork Media
• The Official Blank Dogs Fan Community Website
• Land and Fixed Review SPIN