 Retrospectively, Noisey UK managing editor Daisy Jones found the song's verses to be lacklustre but the chorus reminiscent of "the sudden sickly swell of euphoria 20 minutes after popping a surprisingly pure pill".Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called the track a "bizarre, tuneless collage of hip-hop rhythms, techno keyboards and alternative guitars", that despite sounding distinctive, lacks "any tangible hook to make it memorable".Writer Tim Moore and a "Scotsman" journalist likened the song to a dirge, and unfavourably compared it to the Arthur Baker remix; Moore attributed the single's success to the Baker remix and its Levi's advert exposure.