THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Fixtures are a six-piece Brooklyn band. Their sound combines elements of power pop, post-punk, krautrock, and ’90s indie-rock. One review of their last EP, Weak Automatic, called them “an unholy collision of Television, Ramones, Dino Jr. and The B-52’s.” Oh yeah, and there’s horns.
Hollywood Dog is their first-full length LP. The first single Jimmy Needs The Money is shaded darker than their past blasts of sunshine but still has plenty of hooks. Is noir-pop a thing? Other highlights include I Keep Getting Murdered In My Sleep — which plays like people gathering around the campfire for a singalong ode to insomnia — and the title track Hollywood Dog, a short, horn-blasted pamphlet on how to be catchy which sounds like it was written by a living vial of endorphins. The album is bookended by 21/1 and 21/1 (Reprise). These two songs take the horn/piano/rock arrangements present on previous releases to a soaring new level and serve as a tribute to a lost friend who named the songs himself in a dream.
With the release of Hollywood Dog, Fixtures are pulling together all the disparate influences heard on previous EPs and making them not so much co-exist as join into a Voltron of rock ’n’ roll.”
