The "prog" riffs have been stated as slinking and skittering over staccato beats in way familiar to Storm Corrosion, a duo band of Wilson and Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt.

[9] The music video, directed by Ricky Allen, was released alongside the single and has been described as featuring black and white Soviet-era style graphic design and photography.

[3][2] Thom Jurek of AllMusic enjoyed the track, describing it as balancing "explosive, metallic interaction" with "spooky, atmospheric backdrops, jagged time shifts, and a spacey melody".

[12] Along with "Walk the Plank" and "Herd Culling", Jordan Blum of Metal Injection described the track as packing "the same sort of quirky hostilities".

[13] Brad Sanders of Pitchfork called the track alongside "Herd Culling" as "cousins of 'Harridan'", being built on "nervy bass lines that joust with impressionistic synths".