 Writing for "Uproxx", Derrick Rossignol noted that "it's an engaging piece of atmospheric but dance-ready electronic pop" and compared it to some of her previous works.In his review of Grimes' album, "Miss Anthropocene", Anna Richmond described "Violence" as a song about "an abusive relationship, [...] only understood as being sung by the actual Earth "to" the very crisis of climate change" and, sonically, "four-to-the-floor trance with a Madonna-esque vocal melody".Rhian Daly of "NME" described the record as "pulsating, intergalactic rave-pop".