 Chris Schulz of The New Zealand Herald said that the song , alongside the album tracks " Paddling Out " and " Bavarian # 1 ( Say You Will ) " , " will <unk> around in your head for days and demand repeat plays " . Spin 's Josh <unk> named it a highlight of the album ; he wrote that if the album as a whole sounded like " The Wave " , " it could fill arenas " . Chris <unk> of The A.V. Club wrote , " Though Wyatt 's vocals recall a sad @-@ faced Peter Gabriel , the song is <unk> in the kind of effervescent magic that makes <unk> Li and Peter <unk> and John stars in their own right . " Evan <unk> of PopMatters was critical of Wyatt 's vocal performance ; he wrote that " we really get a sense of how Wyatt 's voice <unk> the group " . He said that the singer <unk> the lyrics " somewhat <unk> , but with absolutely no sense of gravity to be found in his voice at all " . 
