Excavator features cello, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, violin, flugelhorn, upright bass, heavy drums, and sweeping, symphonic crescendos.

[1] The album is described pop-noir with operatic, soul and rhythmic directions, and it draws comparison to the music of Portishead, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, and Florence and the Machine.

[6] WNC calls Excavator "nothing short of a musical meditation[;] Morgan leaps out of a scratchy violin intro, quickly transforming a quiet monologue into an electrified incantation.

"[1] Emily Patrick of Asheville Citizen-Timessays the album is "the three-piece group is at its best," adding that "during an era of dense, electronic production sounds, there's plenty of space on the tracks on Excavator [and] the jazz sensibilities blend so seamlessly into the pop tunes.

And there's a studiousness to Tim Haney's percussion[,] the kind of focused fervor that could karate chop bricks just as well as propel an indie-pop song with shimmering precision and sinewy snare" by Mountain Xpress, who also notes the stand-out track "I Will Not Be Famous" is a "waltzing, uplifting meditation on the idea of doing great work in obscurity [with] lithe and moody piano.