It is characterized by a mixture of instruments and sounds including fuzzy guitars, skittering breakbeats, synthesizers, drums, trap chants, and air horns.
"Magic I Want U" was met with positive reviews from critics; it was considered one of the best songs of the year by Pitchfork and Anthony Fantano, while Paste included it in their mid-decade list.
[9] "Magic I Want U" is 4 minutes and 58 seconds long;[10] it is a pop,[3][4] emo,[6][11] and R&B[6][11] song that draws from a variety of genres, such as hyperpop, Latin music, 1990s hip-hop,[12] EDM, and digicore.
[3] Its production contains fuzzy guitars,[6] synthesizer hooks,[4] drums,[3] and skittering[6][13] breakbeats;[3][4][6] Pitchfork's Mano Sundaresan compared the latter to the work of Dijon.
[6] "Magic I Want U" was met with positive reviews from critics; it was awarded the "Best New Track" accolade from Pitchfork, Sundaresan described Remover as "more confident than ever" and called them an "emo mad scientist, channeling the vastness of [their] growing palette into raw feeling".
Author Meaghan Garvey lauded its mix of instruments, and called it the best of the singles Remover released in 2024; she also mentioned how it "transcends past niches and simply gives us a hit".
[17] Paste thought it was the 85th best song of the decade so far; Weinstein mentioned how Remover's music "has become more and more difficult to describe" and wrote that their production "diverts your attention to something new every single second".