14 August 2022

Blanck Mass "Ted K (Original Score)" (2022)

Ted K (Original Score) (OST), soundtrack
release date: Mar. 18, 2022
format: digital (19 x File, FLAC)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,64]
producer: Blanck Mass
label: Sacred Bones Records - nationality: England, UK

Track highlights: 2. "Montana (Main Theme)" - 5. "Revenge" - 7. "Greyhound"

Soundtrack album by Blanck Mass following the release of the live album Mind Killer (May 2021, transmissioned Apr. 2020 during the COVID19-lockdown) and the studio album In Ferneaux (Feb. 2021). The album (issued via the label's bandcamp profile) shares title with the Tony Scott film about the actual Unabomber (sic) Ted Kaczynski, and it's the second full-length soundtrack album credited Blanck Mass, who first scored Nick Rowland’s acclaimed Calm With Horses (OST) from 2020.
The soundtrack here is yet another fascinating work by Benjamin John Power, who simply seems to continously expand musical barriers whenever he produces a new album - be it as solo artist, as new central member of alt. rock act Editors, or when setting the tone for a full-length feature film. The album doesn't provide us with a long list of single hits, but works as a whole. Blanck Mass displays a nice balance of various intense sensations between good and evil - there's always an underlying current of something intruiging, something luring, and various amounts of... desperation.
Ted K (Original Score) works nicely on its own terms and only makes you interested in seing Tony Scott's film.
Recommended.