[2] Domino Record Company describes the album as highlighting the glamour and drama of New York City in the 1980s.

[2]The album incorporates stylistic elements of indie rock, baroque pop, folk, contemporary R&B, jazz, soul, and electronic music.

By fusing many of these elements together, Blood Orange captures sounds of grooviness, reverbed guitar lines, and piano synths to create music that is described as being a part of a post-punk atmosphere.

In the music video for "I'm Sorry We Lied," produced by Domino Recording Company and directed by Abteen Bagheri in 2012, the story follows Blood Orange and a woman's night life adventure in New York City.

[9][10] A reviewer for Pitchfork wrote that Coastal Grooves omits catchy choruses and melodies in favor of stark guitar lines and seductive mumbling but ultimately gave the album a rating of a 5.9/10.