Well, she’s 28 and she’s been acting since she was 11, at least. Do I smell a theme?…

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Juana Giaimo: There was something that Ximena Sariñana’s previous albums were lacking, her awkward voice never quite fitting into either the singer-songwriter style of her debut or the English language in her sophomore. But in “Sin ti no puede estar tan mal” I discovered for the first time her charm and sensibility. She is hurt, but wants us (him) to believe that she is actually happy. The joyful spirit of her sophomore has been replaced with disjointed electronics, reflecting her emotional state. Like in the lyric video, she is crying and laughing at the same time and the title (something like “Without you it can’t be that bad”) only confirms her emotional mess. 
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Anthony Easton: I can imagine this as a summer jam, in a forgoing-work-on-a-warm-evening kind of way. I don’t know what to do with it in autumn. 
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Micha Cavaseno: Ximena sounds like Natalie Merchant crooning over a glossy version of some outtake from Nine Inch Nails’ With Teeth. The track doesn’t offer quite the lyrical bite, but the verses being structured over the sounds of dysfunction, like a rusted-over window getting forced open, says about everything, doesn’t it?
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Brad Shoup: The electronic pulses are scuffed, the guitar seethes; everything aches like an aging athlete. Sariñana tempers the acidity with a gorgeous chorus — climaxing in overlapping melodies — and the mythical melding of digital and manual. This is the kind of raw disco feeling Britt Daniel has to wring out of his spleen.
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W.B. Swygart: Mmmph, that bass, though. So irresistibly lumpy, but so crunchy, too! Like “Cross Bones Style” with illegal funk injections, as Ximena pops and shuffles up top like a grousy smoke monster in heavy boots. Scrumptious.
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Alfred Soto: Any act that plays Gnarls Barkley as if it were Queen’s “Dancer” has my vote. I know she and her lover belong together because, well, listen to those guitar skronks and multitracked harmonies.
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