On Two Sides
What:
On Two Sides
Who:
Blank Dogs
On:
Troubleman Records / Troubleman MySpace
Where:
Sacred Bones Records Distro
Related links:
MySpace / 'Scenes From a New Town' video
/ Sacred Bones Records
If a transition from mass-ear interest in New Wave guitar groups towards the synth and lo-fi undergrounds of yore has long been in the offing, only now does it seem at tipping point both at home and abroad.
Widespread exposure and acceptance of home recording auteurism has left young Heads hungrier for hard-sound experimentalism in pop than ever - pushing demands on new tunes excitingly high, far beyond textbook understandings of the New York / Manchester post-punk axis towards more cosmic strands in Kosmiche Musik, concrete sound, psychedelic punk and all manner of culturally dispossessed activity.
The anonymous and prolific Blank Dogs is a perfect case in point; an arcane, rough-edged home recorder whose darkened DIY sound - in the wake of LA's Human Ear and Brooklyn's Sacred Bones labels - is suddenly a widespread pop concern, or should be. Debut LP, On Two Sides, takes the songwriting nous of 'Everything's Gone Green'-era New Order, neurotic heaviness of Minimal Wave, crematorium pulse of PiL and nihilistic synth-view of Nervous Gender and Dark Day and drenches it in nauseating, transistor-like production. Available by donation to Blank Dogs, here, or on limited Troubleman vinyl.
By Mark Gomes
Genre: Pop
Release: Album
Keywords: Experimental, Pop, Post-punk
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