
Banks has released her new album, 'Serpentina' - stream
The record features previously released singles ‘Meteorite’, ‘I Still Love You’, ‘Holding Back’, 'Skinnydipped’ and ‘The Devil’.
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'The Fall' finds Banks in confrontational form, her voice cutting through a track built on accusation and resentment. The song pivots on a single repeated refrain: a woman who nearly made it through some kind of collapse, some moment of reckoning. Banks constructs the narrative around betrayal and envy, casting her subject as someone consumed by jealousy and the weight of aging, someone whose own actions have become the mechanism of their undoing. The production accommodates melodic chants, a structural choice Banks has favoured across her work, lending the track a hypnotic, almost incantatory quality as the chorus accumulates. What emerges is less a song about sympathy than about the cold arithmetic of consequence. Banks measures out the damage in precise, unflinching language: the bridges burned, the gold counted, the pressure mounting. The final third shifts register entirely, abandoning the direct address for a more fragmented, almost stream-of-consciousness account of how things fell apart, the narrative dissolving into competing versions of the same event. It's a track that refuses easy resolution, content instead to circle the moment of the fall itself, examining it from every angle.
"The Fall" is a track by BANKS, from the album III, released 11th July 2019. The track is 2:56 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about BANKS.
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