[5] Buckingham incorporated both contemporary and traditional themes into "D.W. Suite", including an interpolation of "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond".
[4][7] A nineteenth century lap harp is utilized throughout the song; Mick Fleetwood gave the instrument to Buckingham as a gift during the Mirage sessions.
Suite” as Go Insane's most ambitious composition and the only song on the album that did not succumb to "gimmicky sound effect[s] or [a] busy arrangement.
Suite” as "an exquisite piece of art-pop that shows what Buckingham can achieve when he traps himself in his studio with a Fairlight synthesizer.
The publication further highlighted the song’s "wafting layers of sound [that] incorporate harp, church bells, ambient noise and gurgling water.