Critical Reception
Pitchfork Media writer Cory D. Byrom said the following about the song:
| “ | Its opening bars recall Led Zeppelin's gentler side with clean-strummed guitar chords and Stockdale putting on his best Robert Plant, but tumbling drumfills inevitably welcome back the rock, leading up to a blissed-out, psychedelic bridge. | ” |
In his review of Wolfmother for music website allmusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine identified "White Unicorn" as one of the highlights of the album, while Rolling Stone writer Brian Hiatt described the song, in his review of the band's 2004 debut EP Wolfmother, as a "Viking-horned anthem" containing "some of the tastiest fuzz-guitar tones recorded in years, and Jimmy Page-worthy chordal riffing".
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