Sometimes the scenery depicts the music directly, other times it evokes or hints at a deeper personal meaning, but it always moves in concert with the structure of the song and the paths of Bosh’s movements, in ways so elegant and effortless that it’s hard to believe (and easy to forget!) that Pink in the Night ’s incredible blend of environmental storytelling, evocative imagery, and music-synced visuals is totally unique - something that remains true 11 months after its release. Streetlights pass in time with each syllable, Bosh bounces off a star in a night sky that appears as the music swells, and then speeds up as the music climaxes with explosive visuals, as Bosh zooms past those same stars. A rainshower evolves from a literal depiction of the lyric “like a summer shower”, into a waterfall as Mitski sings “every drop of rain”, and then into a river that becomes the track itself for the next section, flowing in sync with the repetition of the line “I love you”. Cracks and vine spirals are both a visual representation of blossoming and a heart breaking, and also a subtle visual sync to the vocals. So many elements in this track serve multiple purposes. But Pink in the Night absolutely blew me away by expanding on this concept, deftly interweaving choreography, music visualization, and environmental scenery to create Branches’ most evocative and synesthetic work yet.

👎 = not recommended Pink in the Night - Branchesīranches’ 2020 release Ribs was unique for its inclusion of a scenery environment segment in a track that was primarily dedicated to music sync, adding a human element that grounded the piece beautifully. Also, Cold Death will not automatically play in the playlist, as it is marked as containing sensitive content and you have to press “I understand and wish to proceed” to manually consent to watching it, so it may work better to go directly to the video link separately from the playlist. Note that Don’t Belong (unfinished) by Chuggers is not included as it is not on YouTube, and A Summer Song is also not included as it was taken off YouTube since it was originally posted. Enjoy!Ĭlick here for a playlist of all videos in this roundup (in order). For their first time as a guest reviewer on this blog, they have also reworked some of their original reviews into guest reviews. You probably know Twig - their channel is home to numerous Line Rider works featured in these roundups, as well as in our annual Top 10 videos - such as Widows in Paradise and You Are the Sunset. So as an end-of-year special, I’ve taken my old reviews for that and reworked most of them, as well as written new reviews for everything I didn’t write about the first time around.

Well, if you know me, you can guess that that bugs me a little! Even more so because there was a roundup for January 2021, but it was a joint venture with Twig (from the channel Branches ) and rather than being published here, it was privately published in the Line Rider Artists Collective. Surprise! It occurred to me that the first published Line Rider Review Monthly Roundup was in February 2021, which means that at the end of the year we would have Roundups for every month in 2021 except January.

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