Ament, in an interview with Rolling Stone, said about the music video: I was seeing Cormac McCarthy's The Road – you're driving to the coast and you're trying to get away from the nuclear winter and you have your dogs in the car and you're just trying to escape this horrible apocalypse that just happened.
[1] On his collaboration with Olsen Ament told NME, "when we were doing this song I kept hearing a woman’s voice on the chorus and I thought, ‘Man it would be great if I could get somebody to sing that’.
[3] Spin called it an "unwieldy tune - a weird bromide of chugging alt-rock and orchestral ambience...it’s a garish but simple little clip featuring close-ups of Ament singing while, quite literally, safe in a car".
[4] Paste said the "confident, string-filled track is the perfect song for strutting the streets with Olsen’s hazy, silky vocals, Ament’s distorted snarls and McCready’s warped, swaggering electric guitar riffs".
[5] Consequence of Sound stated it's "a strange bit of alternative, the verses progressing with a Primus-like stalk until the choruses break with a sort of haunted beauty".