Musically, Street Halo retains major elements of Burial's established trademark sound, including the use of R&B vocal samples layered over synthesizer backings and skipping drum beats.

[2] With Street Halo, Hyperdub adopted a similar release strategy to that of Burial's previous single "Ego" / "Mirror", a collaboration between musicians Thom Yorke and Four Tet which had been issued with only a week's advance notice and quickly sold out.

[7] The following year, Hyperdub announced that Street Halo and the Burial EP Kindred would be released as a single CD on 9 April 2012 in Japan,[8] with copies also being made available in select European and North American retailers.

"[14] In a glowing review, Feldman wrote that with Street Halo, Burial "continues to make beautiful, relevant, completely non-partisan music that stands outside ghettoising genre divides.

"[14] Reviewing the 2012 Street Halo / Kindred reissue, MSN Music critic Robert Christgau said the two releases "cohere almost seamlessly as the album they become when you don't have to turn any plastic over.