Koenig said he felt there was "a Tim Burton element" to the video, in which the band reinvented their image as goths, "with white faces, spiked hair and black outfits."

[5] "Richard Russell [head of XL Recordings] is a dad at my son's school," Gabriel explained to Mark Blake, "and he said, 'I have this young band and they are mentioning you as an influence.'

…I could hear a lot of Talking Heads in there… When they wanted to involve me in this remix, I didn't know if it was a bit too weird to sing my own name, so I changed it.

"[8] Pitchfork Media said that the song's "instrumentation and bubbly beat evoke Paul Simon's Graceland and "transforms the buoyant spirit of "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" to a cheaply (but cleanly) recorded, stripped-down, no-fuss context."

Pitchfork also said that "the unassuming nature of the production works in Vampire Weekend's favor, allowing subtle pleasures like that sunny falsetto vocalese at the end and the purity of the guitar tone to shine through.