this one." Dara Hickey of Unreality Shout also gave the song five stars writing, "'Heavy in Your Arms' is easily one of Florence's best singles (and album tracks) to date, marrying sinister samples and twisted lyricism to make a perfectly gothic love song, but also managing to retain sentiment and desperation through her vocal performance." Ed Nightingale of The Gizzle Review commented that "the constant build towards the final chorus is perfectly pitched. Once it hits, Florence's voice soars over haunting harmonies and all the song's elements pull together." Nightingale awarded the song four stars out of five. Mayer Nissim of Digital Spy gave the song another five-star rating, calling it a "brooding mix of dark samples, twisted choirs and piano back Welch's almost spoken-word verses, leading up to truly ear-shattering choruses which sound unlike anything else in the charts right now", while naming it the band's "best single to date". The song was part of a Gigwise list titled "9 brilliant Florence + the Machine songs you may not have heard", which editor Peter Kandunias described that it "shows Florence at her most primal and bombastic [moment]". Music video [[File:Heavy in Your Arms by Florence and the Machine (music video).png|250px|thumb|In this scene, Welch is carried by an unknown man while looking at the camera. Its visuals were compared to The Blair Witch Project'''s "lofi style" while the clothing was compared to the Victorian era costumes used in Kate Bush's music videos.]] Background and synopsis The music video for "Heavy in Your Arms" was released via the Eclipse soundtrack's YouTube channel on 7 July 2010. The video was directed by Tom Beard and Tabitha Denholm. The video, filmed entirely in black and white begins with Welch laying in a bed while being carried by the arms of a person hidden in the dark. The camera glitches and shows a scene of Welch in front of an abandoned building before it returns to the initial scene where she is taken from the bed. In the following scene, Welch is seen singing while lying on the floor, holding a shell similar to the single's artwork. The video also shows shots of Welch being carried by a man (played by Welch's former partner Stuart Hammond) whose face is not seen through various places. The video ends with a scene similar to the one in the beginning, with the only difference that Welch is