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What the Water Gave Me (song) and Harriet Wheeler from The Sundays. "The Sun"s Gordon Smart concluded that the song "sounds more polished with rock guitars alongside a bit of the obligatory harp". Commenting the sound of the song, Jillian Mapes of "Billboard" said that "'What the Water Gave Me' crescendos with a tribal intensity, balancing chants against an airy, whimsical harp". "Spin"s William Goodman called the song "a surge of gospel-tinged pop with harp, piano, and throbbing bass driving under Welch's powerful vocals" Writing for the website HitFix, Katie Hasty said: "the harp line is just about the lightest part of the song, as the