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Iain Mew: Banks lays it on pretty thick, from the slow wavering of her voice to the doom-laden lyrics. If you’re going to take that route, best to go all in, and the tragic fatalism of  “What if the way we started made it something cursed from the start?” makes sure that the awesome giant robot lumbering of the bass doesn’t feel like overkill.
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Patrick St. Michel: Definitely sounds like The Weeknd, except “Waiting Game” lacks the sonic thrills of House Of Balloons or anything to get worked up about regarding the artist behind the music. This is just weak.
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Alfred Soto: A track that is itself a waiting game, it keeps its counsel even unto the chorus’ major key release. Banks’ vocal and synth preset generate no mystery.
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Brad Shoup: The track crushes. But though Banks props up two verses and a chorus with splendid filigrees, the text is ground to dust.
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: Wispy, lovely, without an anchoring force (narrative or musical, maybe even both).
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Jonathan Bogart: The sub-bass wants me to be terrified, the trills in her voice want me to be thrilled, but I’m mostly just bored.
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Anthony Easton: You know it’s a bit of a pileup of indie cliches — the guitar fuzz, the breathless female vocals, the ennui and the indecision — but all of that aside, I kind of like its skill.
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Katherine St Asaph: Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Toward Ecstasy as performed by MS MR with an Etch-A-Sketch and old speakers. The words don’t say much, but the music does.
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