[2] Its accompanying music video was filmed over two days in Stockholm and its surrounding forests, and detailed four different stories connected by a common theme – a fox.

"[1] IndieWire's Daniel D'Amours described the song as "pretty spiritual," as "most of its lyrics talk about the apocalypse, love, faith, death, earth, and everything in between.

"[9] Pitchfork noted the presence of a "foggy bassline" as "the drum line lopes steady behind" Sundfør's "high and tense" voice.

Pitchfork awarded the song with their "Best New Track" label, with Katherine St. Asaph stating: "Her vocal pirouettes and lyrics ("I wish to God that the earth would turn cold/ And all the pretty tulips would disappear") could have wandered in from a grief ballad, but the chorus's blooming synths and the electric-drill bridge suggest a tale far more contemporary and no less haunting.

"[9] Flux referred to it as a "majestic song" that possesses "rhythm and beats on the track coupled with the electronic blips and blurts are as delicious and catchy as they are complex"[3] Luke Slater of the BBC opined that "White Foxes" featured Sundfør "at her most versatile.