In an interview with National Public Radio, lead singer, Charlie Steen, described that track as a flâneur's perspective on the psychological and emotionally draining effects of a doomed relationship".

The song features a call-and-response set of vocals between lead singer Steen and bassist Josh Finerty.

"[2] Writing for National Public Radio (NPR), Bob Boilen called "Concrete" a passionate song with "call-and-response stuttered guitars".

[1] In a separate NPR review of the track, Lars Gotrich described a song that lurches like a vampire bat and kicks grinning teeth.

[2] Cady Siregar, writing for The Quietus compared their song to post-punk band, Fat White Family, describing the song as "highly politicised songwriting and their merry-go-round of raucous hedonism on and off stage has perhaps inevitably drawn comparisons with Fat White Family - and Shame are part of the south London scene that spawned Fat Whites.