Trudge…
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Micha Cavaseno: Motivational anthem of no value Model 404.
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Anthony Easton: This does not even reach the energy of a good walk, and does not encourage new ideas, which a good walk should.
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Iain Mew: “Walk” shows that Kwabs has an impressively rich voice but shows an odd lack of confidence in it. It’s like TMS built up a lot of “Cry Me A River”-like detailing before realising that it wasn’t necessary or fitting, and just shoved it to the background rather than admitting it was wasted.
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Alfred Soto: There are duller things than a British “What Goes Around … Comes Around.”
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Jonathan Bradley: I’ve got this horrible suspicion that when Jay Z hooks up with Chris Martin, this is what he’s shooting for.
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Thomas Inskeep: At first it almost sounds like a UK take on trap, but then the drums come in and it turns all Coldplay. He strikes me as the kind of “urban” singer who middle-aged white people really love. I can imagine this really catching on with Ed Sheeran fans. (For the record, I am a middle-aged white person and I do not love this.)
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Scott Mildenhall: Kwabs could bring gravity to the phonebook on the moon, such is the depth of his sonorousness. It puts a bit of a cap on melodic fluidity, but with an arrangement that complements to the point of challenging its capacity for drama he can express more than enough to cast the vaguest of lyrics as mysterious rather than underdeveloped.
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Patrick St. Michel: A whole lot going on — strings! Echoey voices! A piano! — but all of it serves to clutter up a pretty uneventful song. I feel like Kwabs is trying to distract me.
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