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Jul 12, 2022While Serpentina manages to add some fresh highlights to Banks' catalog, it never veers too far from her established formula, for better or worse.
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Apr 18, 2022While it may prove inconsistent to some, the experimentation and exploration ensures the album remains exciting, as you never know what’s arriving next. If the intention of this album was to show a rebirth, it succeeds, as Banks seems reinvigorated and ready to fearlessly conquer the demons that dare cross her path.
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Apr 15, 2022Though she once again flashes her talent for delivering emotionally wrought tales of heartbreak, Serpentina asserts its uniqueness in paradoxically conventional and unsurprising ways.
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Apr 8, 2022SERPENTINA isn’t a coherent whole but rather a doggerel and ill-considered mishmash of disparate parts.
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Apr 8, 2022‘Serpentina’ speaks to her craft, elevating her talents as a musician as she sheds through her layers and births a new and transformed performer.
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Apr 8, 2022This album at its best can be genuinely explosive – see Holding Back with its booming trap beats and chipmunk-soul hook – but Banks’ central problem on Serpentina is how to channel emotion without straying into musical indulgence, and how to evoke situations without wallowing in them.
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Apr 8, 2022‘Serpentina’ is a welcome reintroduction to the artist and a cathartic ode to doing things your own way.
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Apr 8, 2022Not quite pop perfection, but it has its moments.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 24
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Mixed: 4 out of 24
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Negative: 2 out of 24
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Apr 11, 2022"Serpentina" amplifies the lack of edge and risk BANK considers to journey with on her artistic performances.
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Apr 8, 2022
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Apr 8, 2022Serpentina is art. Banks can express their felling with the good music