Blank Dogs is an American post-punk project from

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Releases

Blank Dogs' first releases arrived in 2007. By 2008, it had issued around hundred releases in 2008, in various formats. Blank Dogsat

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Discography

Albums

*''On Two Sides'' (cassette, Fuck It Tapes / LP,

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/ 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) *''BDMS'' (7", Disordered, 2015)

Compilations

*''Blank Box'' (LP, ?, 2008) *''Year One '' (cassette, Fuck It Tapes / LP, CD, Sacred Bones, 2008/2009) * ''Ages Ago'' 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.
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