[1] The song also features saxophone by the American jazz composer Robert Stillman and strings performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra.

[2] The lyrics were inspired by footage of Italians singing on their balconies during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and criticise cronyism in the British Conservative Party.

[1] In Stereogum, Chris DeVille said it was a "bit of a curveball where the Smile is concerned", describing it as "off-kilter 70s-style piano-pop",[4] and likened it to the work of Randy Newman or Ben Folds.

[4] The Guardian chief music critic Alexis Petridis wrote that it was "almost McCartneyesque", with "the relaxed charm of an early 70s singer-songwriter album".

[11] In Pitchfork, Jazz Monroe wrote that it was “divine, even hummable" and Yorke's "deftest lunge for your heartstrings" since the Radiohead song "True Love Waits".