All Ears: Teddy Blanks

To anyone who's already familiarised with the cheerful, contagious and camp sounds of the Brooklyn based artist Teddy Blanks, I apologise for this uninformative column, but I couldn't resist sharing my late discovery.

Truth is, I've been a huge soundtrack geek ever since puberty.
Few people know this about me. 
It's a taste I developed when I was about 12 years old, and has developed and grown in quite a peculiar -to not say freaky- way.


It started innocently enough; Appreciating a good John Williams, buying the necessary James Newton Howard or Phillip Glass.
Then, It took on a life of it's own.
The harder the soundtrack was to find, the bigger was my thirst.


To this point, I've found myself plenty of times obsessively hunting down pieces of music that were never officially released to the public, sometimes of underwhelming films that nobody really remembers or gives a shit about (let alone their score).

It's a little weird fact about myself, and now it's out there.



However, my little addiction can sometimes lead me to very lucky and pleasant discoveries of a lot of great artists. 

The thing that struck me most when finding the music of Teddy Blanks was just how well he's managed to stay away from the sometimes destructive internet spotlight. If you're lucky you'll find about two tracks of him on Youtube, and only one official -Albeit, adorable- Official music video.

His obscurity took me aback particularly as he is the composer of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of Tiny Furniture; Otherwise known as Lena Dunham's first feature film that worked as her golden ticket to the pearly HBO gates... -I apologise for the mixed metaphors-.

Apart from Tiny Furniture's OST, -which has a free download available at the artist's website, that's right, FREE-. Blank also released his first album last year, entitled Therapy. 

Both albums are great, but being the Soundtrack buff that I am, I particularly enjoyed Blank's work on purely instrumental tracks, that manage to be funny and charming with an offbeat sound.

I seriously recommend visiting his website (here) at least to listen to my personal favourite track "The Emperor's New Clothes".


I'd share the song, but it's nowhere to be found on online -The relentless hipster inside of me kinda loves that-.

Therapy can also be found on the iTunes store, as well as the singe "Famous Friends".