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Blank Cinema
12+ albums
indie rockPost punk
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blank cinema DEMO “deeply dark and creative at times, and infectiously accessible at others.” – Snowboard Canada “dramatic and apocalyptic…exceptional” – www.i(heart)music.net “takes the listener on a journey you won't soon forget.” – CBC Radio3 Luke Kyd holds his ground-to-air rocket launcher over his shoulder and aims it at the blinking pink light of a passing airplane over Vancouver’s East Side. “Sssssssshhhhhhhhcccccchhoooooooooo! BOOM!” Kyd’s eyes light up, and he laughs as he describes the ensuing carnage his imaginary weapon wreaks upon the unsuspecting plane overhead. It’s a common scene outside of Blank Cinema’s rehearsal space as Sarah Sangster and Jake Fox chime in to augment Kyd’s cinematic detail, using childlike sound effects to illustrate the immensity of the imagined destruction. The scene could match any blockbuster’s visceral effect on an audience seated in a modern multiplex theatre with 5.1 digital surround sound. In October 2008, Jake Fox released a solo musical effort that would soon sprout a new band. The six-song EP Fickle Creatures, which Fox says he “wrote, recorded and released from home, just to see if I could do it,” was described critically as “an odyssey of sorts, revolving thematically around a movie that takes place in Fox’s mind.” The record attracted two intensely creative musicians. Sarah Sangster a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter; prior to entering the Cinema, she was a creative force behind two notable Winnipeg bands, Sixt
