The Daily Spin, June 24
Defunctland | Lines
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Album: Lines: Music for Waiting In Queues or Learning About Them (2022)
Artist: Defunctland
Link:
Okay. First things first, go watch this if you haven’t:
Done? Good. This was actually just a way for me to plug one of my favorite documentaries ever. Oops!
Kidding. Sort of. The music here really isn’t anything to write home about - it’s solid synthetic work, impressive given it’s one man mixing, mastering, producing, and doing all of this while orchestrating the essays at the above channel, having pivoted from shorter-form content into hour+ long documentaries on niche historical theme park content. This was the second of three that have since come out, and by far my favorite - potentially one of my favorite videos out there on the internet. Given that, I’m okay with excusing some of the sonological shortcomings of this - the point of soundtracks is often not to be the main star, until they are called upon - and this one fulfills that request admirably.
There are really three songs that stand out from the field to me, mostly because of how they’ve been used - it’s the few opportunities that the music gets to really show through, to emphasize and enunciate so many of the points that the video runs through - as well as the titular theme, which comes together in a 16-bit sort of brilliance.
It’s sweet, it’s short, and it gets to the point. No complaints here.
Now seriously. Go watch the video.
Rating: 7.5/10
Best Tracks: Lines; Reveals; Queues
Worst Tracks: Credits