"Building upon the stylistic jump of 2021's Lately I Feel Everything, Willow takes that effort's pop-punk energy and aggressive rock spirit and bests it with her fifth full-length, Coping Mechanism. Sitting nicely beside contemporary releases by Poppy and Rina Sawayama, the set is a revelation in terms of artistic growth, packed with angst, frustration, and anger that Willow communicates with her heaviest songs to date".